CAMELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does camelia mean? 

• CAMELIA (noun)
  The noun CAMELIA has 1 sense:

1. any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

  Familiarity information: CAMELIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

camelia; camellia

Hypernyms ("camelia" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camelia"):

Camellia japonica; japonica (greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties)

Holonyms ("camelia" is a member of...):

genus Camellia (tropical Asiatic evergreen shrubs or small trees)