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Definition of Common jasmine
1. Noun. A climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Jasmine
Literary usage of Common jasmine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"officinale, common jasmine, is a native of the South of Europe. ... The Common
Jasmine has been a favourite wall-shrub from time immemorial. ..."
2. Gardening for Ladies: And Companion to the Flower-garden by Loudon (Jane), Andrew Jackson Downing (1843)
"... tan is a hothouse shrub that bears a good deal of resemblance to the common
Jasmine, and yields the Oil of Jasmine of the shops. ..."
3. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"J. OFFICINA^LE L. The officinal, or common. Jasmine ... The common jasmine
generally loses its leaves in the winter season, especially in exposed situations ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"The common jasmine generally loses its leaves in the winter season, especially
in exposed situations; but, as its young shoots are of a fine deep green, ..."
5. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"The common jasmine generally loses its leaves in the winter season, especially
in exposed situations; but, as its young snoots are of a fine deep green, ..."
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