Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria, native to tropical America and widely naturalized elsewhere, having milky sap and showy, fragrant, funnel-shaped, variously colored flowers.
- noun A perfume derived from or similar in scent to the flowers of one of these shrubs or trees.
- noun A creamy pastry filling flavored with almonds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perfume prepared from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of a West Indian tree, Plumeria rubra, or red jasmine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
tropical American trees , of the genusPlumeria , having showy, funnel-shaped flowers - noun A
perfume originally obtained from these flowers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These ganaches also come in other flavours, such as frangipani, lime, vervaine, lavender, blue lotus and tuberose!
Archive 2006-12-01 Ayala Sender 2006
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These ganaches also come in other flavours, such as frangipani, lime, vervaine, lavender, blue lotus and tuberose!
Stocking Stuffers, Naturally! Ayala Sender 2006
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In the Crawford Market I had watched the florists at work tearing the blossoms from a kind of frangipani known as the Temple
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If you check back you will notice I suggested we all start early ‘at that place opposite Avid with the courtyard and the frangipani trees out the back.’
Cheeseburger Gothic » Strictly no faffing. This is serious. 2009
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The tropical scent of frangipani and incense wafts throughout the indoor/outdoor living room surrounded by verdant rice paddy fields.
Chip Conley: What's Your Daily Offering? Chip Conley 2011
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Use: Related to the frangipani but more drought tolerant, this small shrub is evergreen.
Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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The tropical scent of frangipani and incense wafts throughout the indoor/outdoor living room surrounded by verdant rice paddy fields.
Chip Conley: What's Your Daily Offering? Chip Conley 2011
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Reminds me of a friend who was asked “What do they mean?” when she put those frangipani stickers on her car a few years back, as if it was some indication of a secret society.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge. 2009
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The tropical scent of frangipani and incense wafts throughout the indoor/outdoor living room surrounded by verdant rice paddy fields.
Chip Conley: What's Your Daily Offering? Chip Conley 2011
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The tropical scent of frangipani and incense wafts throughout the indoor/outdoor living room surrounded by verdant rice paddy fields.
Chip Conley: What's Your Daily Offering? Chip Conley 2011
chained_bear commented on the word frangipani
The Frangipani Society of Australia has an interesting webpage about this shrub. Also an interesting logo. (Didn't think it would be kosher to put the website here, but it's easily found by Googling.
February 3, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word frangipani
Gah! I found a typo, and I don't want to fix it, or it'll look like I just made this comment!
Also, every time I see this word, I think of the mean chick in "Strictly Ballroom." Heh.
May 31, 2008
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tonlon0017 commented on the word frangipani
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July 30, 2011