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camellia (iou)



camellia noun. M18.
[mod. Latin, from Joseph Kamel or Camellus (1661-1706), Moravian Jesuit and botanist: see -IA1.]
An evergreen shrub of the Far Eastern genus Camellia, of the tea family; esp. C. japonica, bearing showy red, pink, or white flowers.