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- noun Plural form of
japonica .
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Examples
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Italian risotto rices and Spanish paella rices are medium-grain japonicas.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Italian risotto rices and Spanish paella rices are medium-grain japonicas.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Short- and medium-grain japonicas are the preferred types in north China, Japan, and Korea.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Short- and medium-grain japonicas are the preferred types in north China, Japan, and Korea.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Fancy Champagne in a pressed goblet, or tuberoses and japonicas in a pressed vase, or attar in a pressed
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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I always associate her with japonicas, which she usually wore in her hair and of which her numerous bouquets were chiefly composed.
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur
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The weather was delightful; oranges and figs were hanging on the trees; roses, oleanders, and japonicas were blooming out-of-doors; the sun was warm and bright; and over all shone gloriously the blessed light of Freedom, -- Freedom forevermore!
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Armistead was an ideal-looking bride in her white dress and long tulle veil and carried, according to the custom then prevalent, a large flat bouquet of white japonicas with white lace paper around the stems.
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur
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Beside the walk stretched garden borders still gay with geraniums, japonicas and other hardy plants in full bloom.
The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown
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There are myrtles and geraniums, great big bushes of them, and japonicas and heavenly wall-flowers and _trees_ of lemon verbena and fuchsias up to the eaves.
The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown
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