japan : Idioms & Phrases

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bank of japan

  • noun the central bank of Japan
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capital of japan

  • noun the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan
    Yeddo; Yedo; Tokyo; Edo; Japanese capital; Tokio.
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Japan allspice

  • noun deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers
    Japanese allspice; winter sweet; Chimonanthus praecox.
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  • (Bot.), a spiny shrub from Japan (Chimonanthus fragrans), related to the Carolina allspice.
Webster 1913

japan bittersweet

  • noun ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America
    Celastrus orbiculatus; oriental bittersweet; Japanese bittersweet; Celastric articulatus.
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Japan black

  • (Chem.), a quickly drying black lacquer or varnish, consisting essentially of asphaltum dissolved in naphtha or turpentine, and used for coating ironwork; called also Brunswick black, Japan lacquer, or simply Japan.
Webster 1913

Japan camphor

  • ordinary camphor brought from China or Japan, as distinguished from the rare variety called borneol or Borneo camphor.
Webster 1913

japan cedar

  • noun tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood
    sugi; Cryptomeria japonica; Japanese cedar.
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japan clover

  • noun an annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States
    japanese clover; jap clover; Lespedeza striata.
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Japan clover, ∨ Japan pea

  • (Bot.), a cloverlike plant (Lespedeza striata) from Eastern Asia, useful for fodder, first noticed in the Southern United States about 1860, but now become very common. During the Civil War it was called variously Yankee clover and Rebel clover.
Webster 1913

japan current

  • noun a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean
    Kuroshio; Kuroshio current.
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Japan earth

  • . See Catechu.
Webster 1913

Japan ink

  • a kind of writing ink, of a deep, glossy black when dry.
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japan tallow

  • noun a yellow wax obtained from sumac berries; used in polishes
    Japan tallow.
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japan trench

  • noun a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet
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Japan varnish

  • a varnish prepared from the milky juice of the Rhus vernix, a small Japanese tree related to the poison sumac.
Webster 1913

japan wax

  • noun a yellow wax obtained from sumac berries; used in polishes
    Japan tallow.
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sea of japan

  • noun an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan
    East Sea.
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