Bot. [Japanese name.] A well-known hardy evergreen diœcious shrub (Aucuba Japonica, N.O. Cornaceæ), with laurel-like leaves usually blotched with pale yellow, grown for ornamental purposes.
1819. Rees, Cycl., III. Aucuba, a large Japanese tree … introduced by Mr. John Grœfer in 1783.
1862. S. Partridge, Eng. Months, 10. The aucuba shows in the shrubbery his broadening leaf Spotted with gold.
