japanese varnish tree

Questions about japanese varnish tree

What does japanese varnish tree mean?

japanese varnish tree means "small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for japanese varnish tree?

Close synonyms include varnish tree, lacquer tree, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese sumac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is japanese varnish tree a common word?

japanese varnish tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.