CAMELLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does camellia mean? 

• CAMELLIA (noun)
  The noun CAMELLIA has 1 sense:

1. any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

  Familiarity information: CAMELLIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMELLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

camelia; camellia

Hypernyms ("camellia" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camellia"):

Camellia japonica; japonica (greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties)

Holonyms ("camellia" is a member of...):

genus Camellia (tropical Asiatic evergreen shrubs or small trees)

 Context examples 

Camellia sinensis is native to mainland South and Southeast Asia, but is today cultivated across the world, in tropical and subtropical regions.

(Camellia sinensis, NCI Thesaurus)

Camellia oil can also be used as a cooking oil.

(Camellia Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Camellia oil is used in skincare preparations for it anti-oxidant properties.

(Camellia Oil, NCI Thesaurus)