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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria, having milky sap and showy, fragrant, funnel-shaped, variously colored flowers. Also called temple tree.
  2. n. A perfume derived from or similar in scent to the flowers of one of these shrubs or trees.
  3. n. A creamy pastry filling flavored with almonds.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A perfume prepared from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of a West Indian tree, Plumeria rubra, or red jasmine.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several tropical American trees, of the genus Plumeria, having showy, funnel-shaped flowers
  2. n. A perfume originally obtained from these flowers

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 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

  1. From an Italian noble family, a sixteenth-century marquess who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name comes from frangi "breaking" + pani "bread," a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine. (Wiktionary)
  2. French frangipane, after Muzio Frangipani, 16th-century Italian marquis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Other words for ‘frangipani’

  1. frangipanni

hypernyms (2)

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  1. shrub
  1. bush

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  1. west indian jasmine
  1. plumeria alba
  1. pagoda tree
  1. temple tree
  1. plumeria acutifolia

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  1. tubereuse
  2. pea-shaped
  3. syringa
  4. tuberose
  1. southernwood
  2. woodsmoke
  3. wistaria
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  1. wild-grape
  2. matriarchate
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  1. temple tree
  1. pagoda tree
  1. plumeria acutifolia
  1. nosegay-tree
  1. frangipane

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  • chained_bear 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 30, 2008

  • chained_bear 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. Feb 3, 2007

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