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GENUS CAMELLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Camellia mean? 

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

1. tropical Asiatic evergreen shrubs or small treesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS CAMELLIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Asiatic evergreen shrubs or small trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Camellia" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Camellia"):

camelia; camellia (any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers)

Camellia sinensis; tea (a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves)

Holonyms ("genus Camellia" is a member of...):

family Theaceae; tea family; Theaceae (a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales)


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