Definitions
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- noun evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves
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Examples
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We wandered along the lanes lined with hedges of Cape jasmine.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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We wandered along the lanes lined with hedges of Cape jasmine.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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We wandered along the lanes lined with hedges of Cape jasmine.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991
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In the South, Cape jasmine, in the Far West, the golden California poppies and carnations, are beautiful to use.
Entertaining Made Easy Emily Rose Burt
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The air was rich with the fragrance of the magnolia and Cape jasmine, and glad with music and soft and merry voices.
Waring's Peril Charles King 1888
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Nothing can be more suffocating than the atmosphere, heavily laden with moist exhalations like the steam of hot water, and impregnated with the strongest and sharpest scents; for the cinnamon-tree, ginger-plant, stephanotis and Cape jasmine, mixed with these trees and creepers, spread around in puffs their penetrating odors.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 02 Eug��ne Sue 1830
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Nothing can be more suffocating than the atmosphere, heavily laden with moist exhalations like the steam of hot water, and impregnated with the strongest and sharpest scents; for the cinnamon-tree, ginger-plant, stephanotis and Cape jasmine, mixed with these trees and creepers, spread around in puffs their penetrating odors.
The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830
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