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JASMINE

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Meaning:

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

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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)

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