英语词汇camellia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

camellia. One of the most beautiful flowering plants, the ev- ergreen camellia is named for George Joseph Kamel (1661– 1706), a Moravian Jesuit missionary and amateur botanist who wrote extensive accounts of the shrub, which he found in the Philippine Islands in the late 17th century. Kamel, who called himself Camellus, the Latinized form of his name, operated a pharmacy for the poor in Manila, planting an herb garden to supply it. He published reports of the plants he grew in the Royal Society of London’s Philosophical Transactions, and some authorities believe that Kamel sent the first specimens of the shiny-leaved camellia back to Europe. In any event, he was the first to describe the shrub, a relative of the tea plant, and the great Swedish botanist Linnaeus read his accounts in Transac- tions and named the plant camellia after him. Camellias are used extensively as garden shrubs in southern areas of the United States and England. Their wax-like, long-lasting flowers are white, red, or pink.

词汇	camellia
词源	camellia. One of the most beautiful flowering plants, the ev- ergreen camellia is named for George Joseph Kamel (1661– 1706), a Moravian Jesuit missionary and amateur botanist who wrote extensive accounts of the shrub, which he found in the Philippine Islands in the late 17th century. Kamel, who called himself Camellus, the Latinized form of his name, operated a pharmacy for the poor in Manila, planting an herb garden to supply it. He published reports of the plants he grew in the Royal Society of London’s Philosophical Transactions, and some authorities believe that Kamel sent the first specimens of the shiny-leaved camellia back to Europe. In any event, he was the first to describe the shrub, a relative of the tea plant, and the great Swedish botanist Linnaeus read his accounts in Transac- tions and named the plant camellia after him. Camellias are used extensively as garden shrubs in southern areas of the United States and England. Their wax-like, long-lasting flowers are white, red, or pink.
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