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CAMELLIA JAPONICA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Camellia japonica mean?
• CAMELLIA JAPONICA (noun)
The noun CAMELLIA JAPONICA has 1 sense:
1. greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties
Familiarity information: CAMELLIA JAPONICA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Camellia japonica; japonica
Hypernyms ("Camellia japonica" is a kind of...):
camelia; camellia (any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers)
Context examples
She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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