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carpenteria

carpenteria \carpenteria\ n. a California evergreen shrub ( Carpenteria californica) having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers.

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carpenteria

  1. n. California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers [syn: Carpenteria californica]

  2. a wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia [syn: Gulf of Carpenteria]

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Carpenteria

Carpenteria californica , the sole species in the genus Carpenteria, with the common names tree anemone and bush anemone.

It is a flowering evergreen shrub native to the Sierra Nevada foothills in California. It is closely related to the genus Philadelphus.

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That much-reduced Chinese force was now escaping westward over the top of the Gulf of Carpenteria, towards the Arafura Sea where they were moving under increasingly friendly and heavy air protection off of New Guinea and out of northern Australia.