camellia

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By the way, the name camellia is derived from Camellas_, a learned Jesuit; probably La Dame aux Camélias had not a similar origin.

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  1. noun Any of several evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Camellia native to eastern Asia, especially C. japonica, having shiny leaves and showy roselike flowers that are usually red, white, or pink.

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  • It had a kind of stiff beauty like a conventionalized flower—one of the heavy hot-house type, camellia or magnolia, carved in stone. —  Vanishing Point - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 24: 1953
  • He picked up the camellia, and when I went off to bed I saw him fingering the wide petals. —  To Kill A Mockingbird
  • "The camellia is a very good garden plant - the camellia sasanquas has hundreds of small, lovely flowers," Mr Klemke said, adding 120 prizes would be awarded. —  The Border Mail
  • But like the camellia, it, too, is reaching the end of its cycle. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • Do not plant caladiums until soil temperature reaches at least 70 F. * As camellia and azalea plants finish blooming, fertilize them with three pounds of azalea-camellia fertilizer.
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  1. New Latin Camellia, genus name, after Georg Josef Kamel (1661-1706), Moravian Jesuit missionary.
 

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