GENUS CAMELLIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Camellia mean? • GENUS CAMELLIA (noun)
The noun GENUS CAMELLIA has 1 sense:
1. tropical Asiatic evergreen shrubs or small trees
Familiarity information: GENUS CAMELLIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS CAMELLIA (noun)
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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