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Gender
Feminine
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Origin of the Name Camellia
Invented
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Usage of the Name Camellia
English
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Meaning of the Name Camellia
The name Camellia comes from Camellia, a genus of flowering plants, native to eastern and southern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan and Indonesia.
The genus was named by Carolus Linnaeus after Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who first described it in the 18th century.
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Famous Bearers
Camellia City is a nickname for Sacramento, California.
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