Camellia definition

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Any of several evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Camellia native to eastern Asia, especially C. japonica, having shiny leaves and showy roselike flowers that are usually red, white, or pink.
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The flower.
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Any of a genus (Camellia) of Asian evergreen trees and shrubs of the tea family, with glossy leaves and waxy, roselike flowers.
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Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant.
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A taxonomic genus within the family Theaceae — the camellias.
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camellia
Plural:
camellias

Origin of camellia

  • New Latin Camellia genus name after Georg Josef Kamel (1661–1706), Moravian Jesuit missionary

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Named after botanist Georg Kamel (1661-1706) by botanist Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778).

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin, after Moravian botanist Joseph Kamel (‘Camellus’) (1661–1706).

    From Wiktionary

Camellia Sentence Examples

  • An inferior variety of pear, for instance, may suddenly produce a shoot bearing fruit of superior quality; a beech tree, without obvious cause, a shoot with finely divided foliage; or a camellia an unwontedly fine flower.

  • There is no other color in the room except a single pink camellia in a tiny vase on the counter.

  • At other times, as in the petals of Camellia, the parts envelop each other completely, so as to become convolute.

  • The tea bush or tree is a member of the natural order Ternstroemiaceae and is closely allied to the well-known ornamental shrub the camellia.

  • The real tea (The y viridis), a plant akin to the camellia, grows wild in Assam, being commonly found throughout the hilly tract between the valleys of the Brahmaputra and the Barak.

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