Camellia
[kə'miːlɪə;-'melɪə] or [kə'milɪə]
Definition
(noun.) any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers.
Checker: Presley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.
Typist: Ronald
Definition
n. a species of evergreen shrubs natives of China and Japan noted for the singular beauty of their flowers.
Checker: Rhonda
Examples
- She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Inputed by Carter