JASMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jasmine mean? 

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

1. any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JASMINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jasmine"):

Jasminum mesnyi; primrose jasmine (evergreen rambling yellow-flowered shrub of western China)

Jasminum nudiflorum; winter jasmine (deciduous rambling shrub widely cultivated for its winter-blooming yellow flowers)

common jasmine; Jasminum officinale; jessamine; true jasmine (a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea)

Arabian jasmine; Jasminum sambac (East Indian evergreen vine cultivated for its profuse fragrant white flowers)

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

genus Jasminum; Jasminum (shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine)

 Context examples 

Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their crowns.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sweet-briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is—I know it well—it is Mr. Rochester's cigar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)