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# camomile

noun (camomile — uncountable; also spelled chamomile)

«camomile» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small plant with flowers like tiny daisies, white petals around a yellow middle, which has a sweet apple-like smell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#m1)
2. A drink (camomile tea) made from the dried flowers, often drunk to feel calm or sleepy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#m2)
3. In old times, a bitter medicine made from the plant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it is mostly camomile tea, which people drink at bedtime. In science and gardening it is a herb. In Alice in Wonderland the Duchess's line is a joke about tastes and tempers: Alice thinks pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar sour, camomile bitter and barley-sugar sweet-tempered. Peter Rabbit's mother also gives him camomile tea when he is ill.

### Examples

- Gran drinks a cup of camomile tea before bed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x1)
- Camomile flowers look like tiny daisies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x2)
- The garden smelled of camomile and mint. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x3)
- Peter Rabbit was put to bed with camomile tea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x4)
- Alice said that camomile makes people bitter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x5)
- We dried camomile flowers for a science project. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x6)
- Some people say camomile helps them relax. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x7)
- The lawn was made of camomile instead of grass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x8)
- His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/#x9)

### Note

Two spellings: camomile (UK) and chamomile (USA and many others); both are right. Say «CAM-uh-mile». Uncountable when it is the plant or tea: some camomile. A herb tea is not real tea from the tea bush.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «camomile» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camomile/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«camomile» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/camomile.html) on Mova free.