noun
rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn
• Syn: ↑katsura tree
• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cercidiphyllum, ↑genus Cercidiphyllum
Useful english dictionary. 2012.