camellia sinensis

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camellia sinensis - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Camellia sinensis
      n 1: a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively
           cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea
           leaves; "tea has fragrant white flowers" [syn: tea,
           Camellia sinensis]