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Lacquer Tree

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Noun

1. chinese lacquer tree, japanese lacquer tree, japanese sumac, japanese varnish tree, lacquer tree, rhus verniciflua, toxicodendron vernicifluum, varnish tree

small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained

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Lacquer Tree

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Also called: varnish tree
an E Asian anacardiaceous tree, Rhus verniciflua, whose stem yields a toxic exudation from which black lacquer is obtained

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Lacquer Tree

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n.
A poisonous tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) of East Asia. Its sap is used to produce a hard brownish-black lacquer.

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