(n) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle, Syn. currajong, Brachychiton populneus
(n) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood, Syn. Triplochiton scleroxcylon, arere, samba, obechi
(n) clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe, Syn. Lysichiton americanum
[ひざらがい(膝皿貝;火皿貝;石鼈);じいがせ(石鼈;爺が背);ヒザラガイ, hizaragai ( hiza sara kai ; hi sara kai ; ishi betsu ); jiigase ( ishi betsu ; jii ] (n) (1) (uk) chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora); sea cradle; (2) Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)