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Cape jasmine

noun

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

Words linked to "Cape jasmine" : Gardenia augusta, Gardenia jasminoides, gardenia