jasmine
/ˈdʒazmɪn
/ /ˈdʒasmɪn/(also jessamine /ˈdʒɛsəmɪn/)
noun
1An Old World shrub or climbing plant which is popular as an ornamental and bears fragrant white, pink, or yellow flowers.
- Genus Jasminum, family Oleaceae: many species, including the winter jasmine.
- I like the wildness of the two plants that look charming together, with the small white fragrant flowers of the jasmine contrasting beautifully with the reddish purple ones of the clematis.
- She caught a whiff of perfumed fragrance as she passed a row of purple lilacs, and white jasmines.
1.1Used in names of other shrubs or climbers with fragrant flowers, e.g. Cape jasmine, yellow jasmine.Some climbing plants such as the Wisteria can be pruned back to this scaffold for many years, while other climbers such as star jasmine are often too vigorous to be trained in this way beyond the second year....
- Cape jasmine is originally a species from temperate climates. In tropical areas it grows well, at altitudes of 400-1200 m. In the tropical lowland it flowers poorly or not at all. It prefers sunny places.
- Yellow Jasmines are little coned shape flowers that you can find growing like a vine on trees.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French jasmin and obsolete French jessemin, from Arabic yāsamīn, from Persian yāsamīn.