crape jasmine

Questions about crape jasmine

What does crape jasmine mean?

crape jasmine means "tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand".

What is another word for crape jasmine?

Close synonyms include crepe jasmine, crepe gardenia, pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay, Adam's apple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crape jasmine a common word?

crape jasmine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.