1. a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves; - Example: "tea has fragrant white flowers" [syn: tea, Camellia sinensis]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]