hinoki
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- finoki (obsolete, [18th C.]).
Etymology edit
From the Japanese 檜 (ひのき, hinoki).
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hinoki (countable and uncountable, plural hinoki or hinokis)
- A tree (species Chamaecyparis obtusa), the Japanese cypress.
- 1989, Arnold Arboretum, Peter Del Tredici, Early American Bonsai: The Larz Anderson Collection of the Arnold Arboretum, page 17:
- The large hinokis are repotted every four to five years, while the smaller plants are repotted every two to three years.
- The wood of this tree.
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