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gardenias

gardenias is the plural of gardenia.

Meaning of gardenia

Noun

gardenia (plural gardenias)

  1. Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers.
  2. The flower of these plants.
    • The aroma given off by flowers has an aphrodisiac effect, especially on women. This is so particularly in the case of lilies of the valley, gardenia, frangipani, and henna.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 98

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Questions about gardenias

What is gardenias the plural of?
Gardenias is the plural of gardenia.

Words near gardenias in the dictionary

  1. Gardenhires
  2. gardenhood
  3. gardenhose
  4. gardenhoses
  5. gardenia
  6. gardenias
  7. gardenin'
  8. gardening
  9. gardening leave
  10. gardenings
  11. gardenish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gardenias (page history and authors); gardenia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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