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camellia
n.
flowering evergreen shrub with fragrant white flowers (native to China and Japan); female first name
Camellia
Camellia is a
genus of
flowering plants in the
family Theaceae. They are
found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described
species, with some controversy over the exact number. The genus was named by
Linnaeus after the
Jesuit botanist
Georg Joseph Kamel, who worked in the Philippines, though he never described a camellia. This genus is famous throughout East Asia; camellias are known as
cháhuā (茶花) in Chinese, "tea flower", an apt designation, as
tsubaki (椿) in Japanese, as
dongbaek-kkot (동백꽃) in Korean and as
hoa trà or
hoa chè in Vietnamese.
camellia
Noun
1. any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers
(synonym) camelia
(hypernym) shrub, bush
(hyponym) japonica, Camellia japonica
(member-holonym) genus Camellia
Camellia
(n.)
An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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