gelsemium sempervirens

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   poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers

   Synonymsyellow jasmineyellow jessamineCarolina jasmineevening trumpet flower

   Broadervine

   Part ofGelsemium

Questions about gelsemium sempervirens

What does gelsemium sempervirens mean?

gelsemium sempervirens means "poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers".

What is another word for gelsemium sempervirens?

Close synonyms include yellow jasmine, yellow jessamine, Carolina jasmine, evening trumpet flower. 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 gelsemium sempervirens a common word?

gelsemium sempervirens 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.