aucuba
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aucuba
1783; < New Latin, apparently < Japanese a ( w ) o-ku being green + -ba combining form of ha leaf (earlier fa, *pa ); compare the Japanese name for the shrub ao-ki < a ( w ) o green + ki ( y ) tree (earlier *koi )
Example Sentences
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Each of these wickets opened on a narrow path which ran among the shrubberies of box and aucuba to the left and right of the main avenue.
From The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc
A conspicuous example of a dioecious plant is the common aucuba, of which for years only the female plant was known in Britain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
A few bushes of aucuba and fuchsia scarcely claimed for the oblong space enclosed in front the name of a garden.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
B. p. aucubifolia is the Double Daisy, having a beautifully variegated foliage, mottled with golden-yellow in the way of the aucuba.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
The place was a garden, somewhat gone to waste, with a gravel drive running round a great circle of periwinkles with a spotted aucuba in the middle.
From The Carbonels by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
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