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Cape jasmine   /keɪp dʒˈæzmən/   Listen
Cape jasmine

noun
1.
Evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves.  Synonyms: cape jessamine, Gardenia augusta, Gardenia jasminoides.






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"Cape jasmine" Quotes from Famous Books



... his betrothal he sent Violet an exquisite bouquet composed of blue and white bell-flowers, cape jasmine, and box, which breathed to the young girl, who was versed in the language of flowers, of gratitude, constancy, and ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... lips and hands, another little crowd was similarly engaged. Orange-trees were evidently favourite rendezvous; and a row of flower-sellers had established themselves in front of a hedge of scarlet hibiscus and double Cape jasmine. Every vendor carried his stock-in-trade, however small the articles composing it might be, on a bamboo pole, across his shoulder, occasionally with rather ludicrous effect, as, for instance, when the thick but light pole supported only a tiny fish six inches long at one end, and two ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey



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