crepe gardenia

Questions about crepe gardenia

What does crepe gardenia mean?

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

What is another word for crepe gardenia?

Close synonyms include crape jasmine, crepe jasmine, 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 crepe gardenia a common word?

crepe gardenia 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.