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CAMELLIA SINENSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves

Example:

tea has fragrant white flowers

Synonyms:

Camellia sinensis; tea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "Camellia sinensis"):

tea; tea leaf (dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea)

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

genus Camellia (tropical Asiatic evergreen shrubs or small trees)

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