japanese varnish tree   (TTS Sound)

The noun japanese varnish tree has 2 senses

• varnish tree, lacquer tree, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese varnish tree, Japanese sumac, Toxicodendron vernicifluum, Rhus verniciflua -- (small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained)


• Chinese parasol tree, Chinese parasol, Japanese varnish tree, phoenix tree, Firmiana simplex -- (deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods)