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camellia

Noun

Ca=mel=lia

WORDNET DICTIONARY

camellia(n = noun.plant) camelia - any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers;

is a member of genus camellia

has particulars: camellia japonica, japonica

is a kind of bush, shrub

camellia, n. [NL., after Georg Josef Kamel, or Camelli, a Jesuit who is said to have brought it from the East.].

An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and Camellia Sassanqua and Camellia 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. [1913 Webster]
An ornamental greenhouse shrub (Thea japonica) with glossy evergreen leaves and roselike red or white double flowers. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

camellia, n. any evergreen shrub of the genus Camellia, native to E. Asia, with shiny leaves and showy flowers.

Etymology

J. Camellus or Kamel, 17th-c. Jesuit botanist