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camellia

/kuh-meel-yuh, -mee-lee-uh/US // kəˈmil yə, -ˈmi li ə //UK // (kəˈmiːlɪə) //

山茶花,山茶,茶花,山茶树

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several shrubs of the genus Camellia, especially C. japonica, native to Asia, having glossy evergreen leaves and white, pink, red, or variegated roselike flowers.

Examples

  • The autumn-flowering sasanqua camellias enjoyed a long and unmolested season that continues, and they have been joined now by the earliest of the Camellia japonica varieties, normally seen in late winter.

  • I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin.

  • He has been able to renew and reinvent Chanel signatures, from its fabrics and shapes to emblems such as the camellia.

  • The outer petals are grandly recurved, forming a fine contrast to the Camellia-like inner petals.

  • So did the white camellia and the moss-rose buds which she had taken out of my bouquet, and fastened at her waist.

  • Sir, I replied, I am no camellia, changing my colors to suit my surroundings.

  • Betty looked at the programme with dazed eyes; then at the camellia.

  • Her complexion faintly tinted with rose had the freshness and delicacy of the camellia.