camellia

1. 1.

   any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

   Synonymscamelia

   Broadershrub

   Narrowerjaponica

   Part ofgenus Camellia

Other forms of camellia

plural

camellias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about camellia

What does camellia mean?

camellia means "any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers".

How many syllables are in camellia?

camellia has 4 syllables: ca-mel-li-a. The stress falls on "mel".

What is another word for camellia?

Close synonyms include camelia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is camellia a common word?

camellia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.