rhus verniciflua

Questions about rhus verniciflua

What does rhus verniciflua mean?

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

What is another word for rhus verniciflua?

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

rhus verniciflua 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.