jasmine

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  1. noun Any of several vines or shrubs of the genus Jasminum, native chiefly to Asia and having usually compound leaves and white or yellow flowers. Some of the fragrant species are used in making perfume.
  2. noun The perfume obtained from these plants.
  3. noun See Carolina jasmine.
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  • "It's jasmine, the same scent that was on the person who attacked me." —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
  • There was yellow jasmine, and the winter-blooming heather. —  Ladies' Bane - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 22
  • He sat down in the shadow of the jasmine, and gradually froze into immobility again. —  EBSCOhost
  • He saw them turn left and pass under the bougainvillea creeper that roofed the terrace in, en route for the jasmine-covered steps leading down to the end of the lower terrace and the cabins at the top of the diving rock. —  Tour De Force - Christianna Brand - Cockrill 06: 1955
  • That must explain the jasmine, although oddly enough, the fragrance seemed much weaker than it had only a few minutes ago. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
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  1. French jasmin, from Old French jassemin, from Arabic yasmīn, from Persian yasmīn, yāsman, from Middle Persian yāsman.
 

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