pinwheel flower

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   tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand

   Synonymscrape jasminecrepe jasminecrepe gardeniaEast Indian rosebayAdam's appleNero's crowncoffee roseTabernaemontana divaricate

   Broadershrub

   Part ofTabernaemontana

Questions about pinwheel flower

What does pinwheel flower mean?

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

What is another word for pinwheel flower?

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

pinwheel flower 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.