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Definition of Night jasmine
1. Noun. West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped yellow-white flowers that are fragrant by night.
Group relationships: Cestrum, Genus Cestrum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Night Jasmine
Literary usage of Night jasmine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable (1897)
"... noticed even then how handsome was his face and figure, and how the odor of
the night jasmine was filling the air with an almost insupportable sweetness ..."
2. Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies by William Malone Baskervill (1897)
"... the first low flute notes of the mockingbird's all-night song, the overpowering
sweetness of the night jasmine, the old gate with the grass growing ..."
3. Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors by Jacques Nicolas Léger (1907)
"... gentle breeze passes caressingly on the land, carrying with it the faint
fragrance of flowers such as the mirabilis and the night jasmine, which grow ..."
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