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Gardenia   Listen
noun
Gardenia  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gardenia" Quotes from Famous Books



... anything Doing that required the Services of a Hand-Shaker or Errand Boy he was right there with the Dark Cutaway and a fresh Gardenia. ...
— Knocking the Neighbors • George Ade

... India, and Peru, and huge-leaved, wide-spreading trees, exotics from the South Seas, many of them rich in parasitic ferns, and others blazing with bright, fantastic blossoms. The air was heavy with odours of gardenia, tuberose, oleanders, roses, lilies, and the great white trumpet- flower, and myriads of others whose names I do not know, and verandahs were festooned with a gorgeous trailer with magenta blossoms, passion-flowers, and a vine with masses of trumpet-shaped, ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird



Words linked to "Gardenia" :   crepe gardenia, genus Gardenia, bush, Gardenia jasminoides, shrub, Gardenia augusta



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