Fortunella japonica
- noun
- Specialized
:
Fortunella japonica
- Many gardeners prefer to grow Fortunella japonica because of its attractive foliage and edible fruit.
Examples
-
The Fortunella japonica in our backyard produces sweet, round kumquats every spring.
-
The Fortunella japonica is often used in traditional Asian cuisine.
-
Botanists identified the shrub as Fortunella japonica due to its distinctive small fruits.
-
Many gardeners love the Fortunella japonica for its sweet fruit.
-
Many gardeners prefer to grow Fortunella japonica because of its attractive foliage and edible fruit.
-
The Fortunella japonica in our backyard produces sweet, round kumquats every spring.
-
Botanists identified the shrub as Fortunella japonica due to its distinctive small fruits.
Synonyms
1
6.3
A small tree that grows orange fruits with sweet skin and sour inside
A small evergreen shrub that bears round edible orange fruits
A small tree from East Asia that makes round orange fruits with sweet peel and sour flesh
A small tree that grows round orange fruit you can eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Fortunella + japonica
The binomial combines the genus name Fortunella (a kumquat-bearing shrub) with the epithet japonica (meaning 'of Japan'), so the overall meaning — a Fortunella species from Japan — is directly derivable from its parts. Botanical Latin binomial patterns are compositional and cross-linguistically regular, so a learner who knows the constituent meanings would understand this MWE.
Etymology
Fortunella japonica is named after a plant hunter and a country. Fortunella honors the plant collector Robert Fortune, and japonica means 'from Japan', so the name shows it is Fortune's plant from Japan.