Definition of Fatsia

1. Noun. (botany) Any of the genus ''Fatsia'' of Asian evergreen shrubs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fatsia

1. an evergreen shrub [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatsia

fatly
fatner
fatners
fatness
fatnesses
fatoush
fatoushes
fats
fatshedera
fatshederas
fatshionista
fatshionistas
fatsi
fatsia (current term)
fatsias
fatso
fatsoes
fatsos
fatstock
fatstocks
fatsuit
fatsuits
fatted
fatten
fatten out
fatten up
fattened
fattener

Literary usage of Fatsia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Then the cylindrical mass of pith is removed, cut into lengths, and revolved against the edge of a sharp knife, which cuts it into a thin even sheet. fatsia ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"The genus is confused in gardens with Aralia,Acanthopanax,fatsia ... From fatsia it is distinguished by having the pedicel articulated beneath the flower. ..."

3. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"In the flora of Japan, fatsia is represented by the ... The third member of the genus, fatsia papyrifera, from the thick pith of whose branches the Chinese ..."

4. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"fatsia papyrifera produces the rice paper used in oriental countries for making ... fatsia Japonica and its variegated varieties are also very useful in ..."

5. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"fatsia. Stem not prickly; flowers in one or more simple umbels 2. Aralu. 1. fatsia. Decaisne & Planch. Densely prickly shrubs with large palmately lobed ..."

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