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CAPE JESSAMINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cape jessamine mean?
• CAPE JESSAMINE (noun)
The noun CAPE JESSAMINE has 1 sense:
1. evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves
Familiarity information: CAPE JESSAMINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cape jasmine; cape jessamine; Gardenia augusta; Gardenia jasminoides
Hypernyms ("cape jessamine" is a kind of...):
gardenia (any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers)
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