lacquer tree

Questions about lacquer tree

What does lacquer tree mean?

lacquer tree means "small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained".

What is another word for lacquer tree?

Close synonyms include varnish tree, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese varnish 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 lacquer tree a common word?

lacquer 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.