gardenia augusta

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   evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves

   Synonymscape jasminecape jessamineGardenia jasminoides

   Broadergardenia

Questions about gardenia augusta

What does gardenia augusta mean?

gardenia augusta means "evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves".

What is another word for gardenia augusta?

Close synonyms include cape jasmine, cape jessamine, Gardenia jasminoides. 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 gardenia augusta a common word?

gardenia augusta 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.