japonican.
/dʒəˈpɒnᵻkə/, U.S. /dʒəˈpɑnəkə/ a. A name used for various plants originally native to Japan, esp. formerly the camellia ( C. japonica); now usually designating a spring-flowering, deciduous shrub of the genus Chænomeles, esp. C. japonica, the Japanese quince, or its fruit.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > camellias
camellia1753
Japan rose1789
japonica1819
waratah1824
sasanqua1866
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of Asian or South Pacific > Japanese quince
japonica1819
Japan quince1850
Japanese quince1900
1819 J. Keats Let. 13 Mar. (1931) II. 309 I would put it [sc. a globe of gold-fish] before a handsome painted window and shade it all round with myrtles and Japonicas.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 207 Whiteness refiningly enhances beauty,..as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls.
1855 J. E. Cooke Ellie 137 One of the amusing jests is the appearance here of that young lady there, with the Japonica in her hair.
1858 T. G. Vielé Following Drum 58 Cape jessamine hedges, japonicas, tea-roses.
1859 A. Van Buren Jottings Sojourn in South 134 That richest and sweetest blossomed of tropical shrubs—the japonica—that never blossoms only in winter.
1910 ‘O. Henry’ Strictly Business ix. 104 You put me in mind of a japonica in a window.
1933 A. Osborn Shrubs & Trees for Garden xxxv. 318 C[ydonia] japonica (Japanese Quince), of which there are varieties with flowers of many shades of white, yellow, pink and red, is often known as ‘Japonica’.
1963 W. Blunt Of Flowers & Village 46 The japonica has had no less than five different names during my lifetime.
1969 Listener 9 Jan. 45/2 The Japonica is strangled with convolvulus.
b. The fruit of the Asian plant Zizyphus jujuba ( Z. sinensis); cf. jujube n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > jujube
jujubec1400
zizypha1546
lote?1614
ber1860
japonica1874
jujube-plum1884
1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1308/1 Japonica. A market name for the fruits of Zizyphus sinensis, which are occasionally sold in Covent Garden as dessert fruits.
1882 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 4) ii. iii. 512 Another Japanese species, Z[izyphus] sinensis, yields the fruits known as Japonicas.
Derivatives
jaˈponicadom n. U.S. (see quot. 1860). Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun]
optimacy1579
aristocracy1651
great world1699
peerage1725
well-connected1788
governing class1795
patriciate1795
well-connected1831
caste1842
(the) salt of the earth1842
the leisured class(es1848
japonicadom1851
countyocracy1859
masterclass1861
proprietariat1872
four hundred1888
the Establishment1923
gratin1934
power élite1942
U1954
upper1955
topside1958
1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 123 The general society of New Orleans is still in a chaotic state, and she has no located, acknowledged empire of Japonicadom.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Japonicadom, a word invented by N. P. Willis to denote the upper classes of society.
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n.1819