night-scented jasmine
night-scented jasmine noun: the plant, Cestrum nocturnum, family Solanaceae, with flowers that open at night.
Noun
night-scented jasmine (countable and uncountable, plural night-scented jasmines)
- The plant, Cestrum nocturnum, family Solanaceae, with flowers that open at night.
- Like dangling emerald pendants the two humming-birds were making their last rounds of the hibiscus and a mocking bird had started on its evening song, sweeter than a nightingale's, from the summit of a bush of night-scented jasmine.1954, Ian Fleming, “Passionate Leave”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 242
Forms of night-scented jasmine
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Questions about night-scented jasmine
- What does night-scented jasmine mean?
- Night-scented jasmine means the plant, Cestrum nocturnum, family Solanaceae, with flowers that open at night.
- What part of speech is night-scented jasmine?
- Night-scented jasmine is a noun.
- What is the plural of night-scented jasmine?
- The plural of night-scented jasmine is night-scented jasmines.
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