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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 varietiesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CAMELLIA JAPONICA (noun)


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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