gardenia jasminoides

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

   Synonymscape jasminecape jessamineGardenia augusta

   Broadergardenia

Questions about gardenia jasminoides

What does gardenia jasminoides mean?

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

What is another word for gardenia jasminoides?

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

gardenia jasminoides 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.