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Definitions of camellia in various dictionaries:
noun - any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers
noun - a tropical shrub
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 Ind...
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| George Joseph Camel, a Moravian Jesuit missionary, gave his name to this flowery shrub |
| This flower, a popular source of tea, was named for Jesuit & botanist Georg Kamel |
| Dumas wrote about a courtesan who always wore this flower, perhaps the Japonica variety |
| Of aster, buttercup & camellia, the genus from whose plants tea is most often made |
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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. |
| an evergreen East Asian shrub related to the tea plant, grown for its showy flowers and shiny leaves. |
| any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers |
| a bush with dark, shiny leaves and large white, pink, or red flowers that are similar to roses |
| An evergreen East Asian shrub related to the tea plant, grown for its showy flowers and shiny leaves. |
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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 100300 described species, with some controversy over the exact number. There are also around 3,000 hybrids. The genus was named by Linnaeus after the Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who worked in the Philippines and described a species of camellia (although Linnaeus did not refer to Kamel's account when discussing the genus). Camellias are famous throughout East Asia; they are known as cháhu (, 'tea flower') in Chinese, tsubaki () in Japanese, dongbaek-kkot () in Korean, and as hoa trà or hoa chè in Vietnamese. * Of economic importance in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage tea. The ornamental C. japonica, C. sasanqua and their hybrids are the source of hundreds of garden cultivars. C. oleifera produces tea seed oil, used in cooking a |