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Definition of japonica : A species of Camellia ( Camellia Japonica), a native of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers. Many other genera have species of the same name.

Synonyms:

Chaenomeles Japonica, camellia japonica, maule's quince

Usage examples:

• He quickly approached the divan where she had been sitting, where, with her fan, the japonica also had been left. - "The Sign of Flame", E. Werner.
• You see, gracious lady, that the white japonica blooms here also, delicate, snowy flower; but unconsciously you broke the glowing red one, and poets are superstitious. - "The Sign of Flame", E. Werner.
• The tall madder- pink stems rear their tufted crests in some cases seventy or eighty feet into the air, and the ground below is carpeted with red pyrus japonica, violets, ferns, and, near the romantic monastery of Doryo- San, with a kind of lily or iris whose white petals are marked with lilac and yellow. - "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life", Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey.