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Definition of Cape jessamine

Cape jessamine
Jasmine Jas"mine, n. [F. jasmin, Sp. jazmin, Ar. y[=a]sm[=i]n, Pers. y[=a]sm[=i]n; cf. It. gesmino, gelsomino. Cf. Jessamine.] (Bot.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea. [Written also jessamine.] Cape jasmine, or Cape jessamine, the Gardenia florida, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a native of China, and hardy in the Southern United States.

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- jasminoides, cape jessamine Gelsemium rankinii, Rankin's jessamine or swamp jessamine Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine or Carolina jessamine Murraya...
- cultivated. The common names cape jasmine and cape jessamine derive from the earlier belief that the flower originated in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa...
- USLHT Jessamine was a steam-powered sidewheel lighthouse tender built in 1881 for the United States Lighthouse Board. She spent forty years in government...
- Ellis persuaded him to use Gardenia as a name for the Cape jasmine, also known as Cape jessamine. His zoological interests led Garden to write about cochineal...
- garden at The Elms was her especial care and pride, with its rose trees, cape jessamine hedges, and the flowers that blossomed each year. About 1771, the Izards...
-  odoratissimum L. – yellow jasmine J. officinale L. – common jasmine, jasmine, jessamine, poet's jasmine, summer jasmine, white jasmine J. parkeri Dunn – dwarf...
- Sager Nick Hornby Scott Turow Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Gary Shteyngart Jessamine Chan Alma Katsu Megan Abbott Joshua Ferris Ann Napolitano John Irving...
- Wrightia religiosa Jasmine (album), by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden Jessamine (band), a musical group Jasmine Records, a record label Mo Li Hua ("Jasmine...
- 385 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area Jessamine 52,991 173 Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area Johnson...
- 131 916 Rockbridge Virginia $25,638 $48,313 $59,165 22,345 9,234 917 Jessamine Kentucky $25,637 $49,024 $58,733 49,112 18,012 918 Watonwan Minnesota...