noun
shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine
• Syn: ↑genus Jasminum
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Oleaceae, ↑family Oleaceae, ↑olive family
• Member Meronyms: ↑jasmine
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\\ˈjazmənəm, -asm-\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a large genus of tropical chiefly East Indian woody vines or shrubs of the family Oleaceae having mostly pinnate leaves and flowers shaped like salvers
Useful english dictionary. 2012.