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camellia
/kəˈmiːli.ə/
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What does camellia mean?
noun
- Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant.
proper noun
- A suburb of Sydney in the Parramatta council area, New South Wales, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈmiːli.ə/
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/kəˈmɛli.ə/
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The Camellia Japonicas are now in bloom, and care should be taken that the small branches are not torn off, instead of being cut properly.
She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole.
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Entering a tea-room in late winter, you may see a slender spray of wild cherries in combination with a budding camellia; it is an echo of departing winter coupled with the prophecy of spring.
Tea-making--by which I do not imply the throwing of three spoonfuls of dried leaves into a teapot, but the transformation of the green leaf of a camellia into the familiar black spirals of our breakfast-tables--is quite an art in itself.
The plant whose leaves yield the tea of commerce is variously termed Camellia Theifera; Thea Sinensis; or Chinensis; Thea Assamica; Thea Bohea and Thea Viridis, according to its origin, variety of the writer's fancy.