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snow·bell

(snō′bĕl′)

Any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Styrax, having bell-shaped white flowers. Some species are cultivated as ornamentals, and some are used as a source of the resin benzoin. Also called storax.

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snowbell

(ˈsnəʊˌbɛl)

(Plants) any shrub or tree of the genus Styrax

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snowbell - small tree native to Japan

Styrax obassia

styrax - any shrub or small tree of the genus Styrax having fragrant bell-shaped flowers that hang below the dark green foliage

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japonica], Japanese snowbell, 1862 (KN:48; TH1863; SBP1889; Sargent 1888b).

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For example, Pseudoscymnus sylvaticus mothers lay their eggs on galls of certain aphid species (Tuberocephalus sasakii, which forms galls on cherry tree leaves, or Ceratovacuna nekoashi, which forms galls on fruits of Japanese snowbell, Styrax japonica), and the hatched larvae forage exclusively on the aphids in the gall.

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Styrax (also known as Japanese Snowbell) trees were transplanted by the Fisheries Building at the University, and several Japanese White Pines were transplanted near George Washington Boulevard.