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Gardenia

noun

Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers.

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"Gardenia" Quotes from Famous Books

... shady lanes, the houses embowered in large-leaved tropical trees, cocoa-nut, banana, bread-fruit, calabash, and other palms, with cycas and tree-ferns with stems some fifteen feet high. Flower-bearing shrubs also abounded, such as the Hibiscus, Mairi, of which the women make wreaths, and Gardenia, with the flowers of which they also adorn themselves. In some of the gardens water was laid on, and pretty fountains were playing, from which it would appear that the water supply is good, and that there is a good head of it in ...

— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles

... more years and a half, and take up the scene in the cloistered court of a Moorish house in Algeria, adapted to European habits. The slender columns supporting the horse-shoe arches were trained with crimson passion-flower and bougainvillia, while orange and gardenia blossom scented the air, and in the midst of a pavement of mosaic marbles was a fountain, tinkling coolness to the air which was already heated enough to make it impossible to cross the court without protection from the sunshine even at nine o'clock ...

— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

Words linked to "Gardenia" : bush, cape jessamine, Gardenia augusta, Gardenia jasminoides, shrub, cape jasmine