KATSURA TREE

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Meaning:

Rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn

Synonyms:

Cercidiphyllum japonicum; katsura tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("katsura tree" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Holonyms ("katsura tree" is a member of...):

Cercidiphyllum; genus Cercidiphyllum (one species: katsura tree)

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