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jessamine
noun[ C or U ]
mainly USold-fashioneduk /ˈdʒes.ə.mɪn/ us /ˈdʒes.ə.mɪn/
a climbing plant with pleasant-smelling flowers:
My house was surrounded by a kind of straggling hedge of jessamines and other flowers.
We had lunch on the spacious verandah amid the scent of roses and jessamine.
Consider planting a few summer pots of lavender, or beautifully scented Mexican orange blossom, roses, or orange jessamine.
Night-flowering jessamine blooms over an extended period.
The faint scent of flowers hung in the air from the jessamine bushes nearby.
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