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Definition of Star jasmine

1. Noun. Evergreen Chinese woody climber with shiny dark green leaves and intensely fragrant white flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Star Jasmine

Literary usage of Star jasmine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The star jasmine is one of the many good old standard greenhouse plants that ... star jasmine. Also called "Confederate," "Malayan "or "African Jessamine. ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The star jasmine is one of the many good old standard greenhouse plants that ... star jasmine. Also called "Confederate," "Malayan" or "African" Jessamine. ..."

3. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"I walked among the roses and sweet- scented star jasmine blossoms; listened to the birds singing in the trees; watched the children at play in the walks—and ..."

4. Memorials of a Southern Planter by Susan Dabney Smedes (1888)
"... memorial of Susan Fitzhugh Hill,—a handful of the fragrant white star jasmine. It grew in her garden on a bush that her hand had tended fifty years ago. ..."

5. Catharine Cole's Book by Martha Reinhard Smallwood Field (1897)
"Once, while I was ill in a far-off, alien land, a bright young writer sent me, in a letter, a bit of star jasmine from home. The faint, sweet smell of that ..."

6. A Southern Planter by Susan Dabney Smedes (1890)
"... memorial of Susan Fitzhugh Hill,—a handful of the fragrant white star jasmine. It grew in her garden on a bush that her hand had tended fifty years ago. ..."

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