Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of araliaceous shrubs of eastern Asia, including three species, one of which, F. horrida, is also native on the northwest coast of America.
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- noun botany Any of the
genus Fatsia ofAsian evergreen shrubs .
Etymologies
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From the genus name.
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Examples
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The foodstuffs that permeate the pages—fatsia pancakes and "dough-flake soup," wild-strawberry juice and "mung-bean porridge"—speak of a traditional woman's work in the fields, her home life in the kitchen and a connection between the two that her children, in their weightless urban lives, have lost.
Lost in a World Without Roots Pico Iyer 2011
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