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night-scented jasmine en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The plant, Cestrum nocturnum, family Solanaceae, with flowers that open at night.
    • Like dangling emerald pendants the two humming-birds were making their last rounds of the hibiscus and a mocking bird had started on its evening song, sweeter than a nightingale's, from the summit of a bush of night-scented jasmine. 1954, Ian Fleming, “Passionate Leave”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 242:

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night-scented jasmines Number=Plur lexicographic