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Camellia

An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.

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Bush 76% connected

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

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Japonica 76% connected

A species of Camellia (Camellia Japonica), a native of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers. Many other genera have species of the same name.

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Agave noun · 78% connection

tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament o…

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Andromeda noun · 78% connection

any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers

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Asparagus noun · 78% connection

A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlet…

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Azalea noun · 78% connection

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from…

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Bignonia noun · 78% connection

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata…

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Boxthorn noun · 78% connection

any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries

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Butterwort noun · 78% connection

any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal l…

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Candytuft noun · 78% connection

any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers; native to M…

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Cyclamen noun · 78% connection

Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink…

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Deergrass noun · 78% connection

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and e…

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Deutzia noun · 78% connection

A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.

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Erythrina noun · 78% connection

any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and…

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Foliage noun · 78% connection

A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended…

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Forsythia noun · 78% connection

any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivate…

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Frangipani noun · 78% connection

any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped var…

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Frangipanni noun · 78% connection

any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped var…

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Fuchsia noun · 78% connection

any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South Amer…

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Gentianella noun · 78% connection

low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers

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