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GENUS CAMELLIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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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