The tea tree is a kind of camellia.
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Camellia
//kəˈmiːli.ə//
Synonyms for "camellia" (2 found)
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36 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- كَامِيلِيَا noun (plant)
- كَامِيلِيَة noun (plant)
Armenian
1 entries- կամելիա noun (plant)
Bulgarian
1 entries- каме́лия noun (plant)
Catalan
1 entries- camèlia noun (plant)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 山茶 noun (plant)
- 山茶花 noun (plant)
- 茶花 noun (plant)
Czech
1 entries- kamélie noun (plant)
Danish
1 entries- kamelia noun (plant)
Esperanto
1 entries- kamelio noun (plant)
Faroese
1 entries- kamelia noun (plant)
Finnish
1 entries- kamelia noun (plant)
French
1 entries- camélia noun (plant)
Georgian
1 entries- კამელია noun (plant)
German
1 entries- Kamelie noun (plant)
Greek
1 entries- καμέλια noun (plant)
Hungarian
1 entries- kamélia noun (plant)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Kamelje noun (plant)
Italian
1 entries- camelia noun (plant)
Japanese
1 entries- 椿 noun (plant)
Korean
1 entries- 동백나무 noun (plant)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kamelia noun (plant)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kamelia noun (plant)
Persian
1 entries- چای زینتی noun (plant)
Polish
1 entries- kamelia noun (plant)
Portuguese
1 entries- camélia noun (plant)
Romanian
1 entries- camelie noun (plant)
Russian
1 entries- каме́лия noun (plant)
Spanish
1 entries- camelia noun (plant)
Swedish
1 entries- kamelia noun (plant)
Turkish
2 entries- Japon gülü noun (plant)
- kamelya noun (plant)
Ukrainian
1 entries- каме́лія noun (plant)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hoa chè noun (plant)
- hoa trà noun (plant)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Rose, Juniper, Lily, and Camellia were all named after plants, as was Giant Corpse Flower, whose high school experience was far worse than theirs.
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I remember noticing that the white camellia was the same color as her smooth forehead “that looked like marble and smelt like myrrh”, that the red camellia matched the color in her cheeks and lips.
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Herbal teas, unlike traditional teas, are derived from various plants other than the Camellia sinensis.
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