AUCUBA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aucuba mean? 

• AUCUBA (noun)
  The noun AUCUBA has 1 sense:

1. hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan

  Familiarity information: AUCUBA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUCUBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aucuba; genus Aucuba

Hypernyms ("Aucuba" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Holonyms ("Aucuba" is a member of...):

Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)