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NIGHT JASMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does night jasmine mean? 

NIGHT JASMINE (noun)
  The noun NIGHT JASMINE has 1 sense:

1. West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped yellow-white flowers that are fragrant by nightplay

  Familiarity information: NIGHT JASMINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NIGHT JASMINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped yellow-white flowers that are fragrant by night

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cestrum nocturnum; night jasmine; night jessamine

Hypernyms ("night jasmine" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("night jasmine" is a member of...):

Cestrum; genus Cestrum (genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs)


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