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camellia

/kəˈmiːli.ə/

camellia 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.

camellia: any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the...
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Noun

camellia (plural camellias)

  1. 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.
    • Palms towered majestically over the heads of the lower shrubs, and camellias, stephanotis, and many other semi-tropical flowers were growing luxuriantly in the open air.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 22
    • Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone’s scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Camellia

Camellia

  1. A suburb of Sydney in the Parramatta council area, New South Wales, Australia.

camellia meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese

camellia in Tamil

ஆக்கத்திசு

camellia in Arabic

plant
كَامِيلِيَا kāmīliyā, كَامِيلِيَة kāmīliya

camellia in Persian

plant
چای زینتی

camellia in Vietnamese

plant
hoa chè, hoa trà

Forms of camellia

pluralcamellias

Plural of camellia: camellias

Origin of camellia

Borrowed from translingual Camellia, named after Moravian botanist Joseph Kamel (‘Camellus’) (1661–1706). The Czech surname Kamel is a variant of Kamil.

Words formed from camellia

Questions about camellia

What does camellia mean?
Camellia means 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.
What is camellia in Tamil?
Camellia in Tamil is ஆக்கத்திசு. See Camellia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is camellia?
Camellia can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce camellia?
Camellia is pronounced /kəˈmiːli.ə/.
What is the plural of camellia?
The plural of camellia is camellias.

Words near camellia in the dictionary

  1. camelized
  2. camelizes
  3. camelizing
  4. camellate
  5. camellated
  6. camellia
  7. Camellia City
  8. camelliaceous
  9. camellias
  10. camellike
  11. camelman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camellia (page history and authors); Camellia (page history and authors); camellia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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