confederate jasmine

confederate jasmine
noun
evergreen Chinese woody climber with shiny dark green leaves and intensely fragrant white flowers
Hypernyms: ↑vine
Member Holonyms: ↑Trachelospermum, ↑genus Trachelospermum

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noun
Etymology: so called from its cultivation in the southern United States
: either of two vines of the genus Trachelospermum:
b. : a similar vine (T. asiaticum) having smaller but broader leathery leaves with blunt tips

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(sometimes l.c.)
[1895-1900, Amer.]

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