japonica

Other forms of japonica

plural

japonicas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about japonica

What does japonica mean?

japonica means "greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in japonica?

japonica has 4 syllables: ja-po-ni-ca. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /dʒəˈpɑnəkə/.

What is another word for japonica?

Close synonyms include Camellia japonica, maule's quince, Chaenomeles japonica. 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 japonica a common word?

japonica 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.