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Definition of True jasmine
1. Noun. A climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea.
Lexicographical Neighbors of True Jasmine
Literary usage of True jasmine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal (1876)
"The yellow jasmine, which, in reality, is not a true jasmine, ... The jasminum
officinale, or true jasmine, was known to the ancients and used by them as ..."
2. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"The true jasmine is a ... In the illustration (a) Is branch, leaf and flower of
Carolina Jasmine ; (6), the true Jasmine. Southern states of the American ..."
3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"During the flowering period it perfumes the air with a delightful fragrance
similar to that of the true jasmine. When the vine is abundant, the odor of the ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"... about an inch across, which have a fragrance similar to that of the true
jasmine; when the plant is abundant the odor is almost overpowering. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The important medicinal plant known in America as the " Carolina jasmine " is
not a true jasmine (sec ..."
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