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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen shrub (Tabernaemontana divaricata) native to India and cultivated as an ornamental in warm regions for its fragrant white flowers.
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- noun tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the crinkled lobes of the corolla.]
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