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au·cu·ba  (ôky-b)

n.

Any of several eastern Asian evergreen shrubs of the genus Aucuba, especially A. japonica, grown as an ornamental chiefly for its glossy, leathery leaves.

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[New Latin : possibly from Japanese auku, green + Japanese ba, leaved.]

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Aucuba - hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan genus Aucuba rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants Cornaceae, dogwood family, family Cornaceae - a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia