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Definition of Trachelospermum
1. Noun. Genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Confederate Jasmine, Star Jasmine, Trachelospermum Jasminoides
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trachelospermum
Literary usage of Trachelospermum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"trachelospermum jasminoides. England, but young plants are more ...
trachelospermum (Greek, neck and seed, referring to the fact that the seed has
a neck). ..."
2. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson, Esther Baldwin York (1903)
"I notice that in my note on " Rare Plants at trachelospermum Jasminoides.— 1 the
name of the flowering creeper that covered the Mount Edgcumbe" (page 356), ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"ROBERT SHORE and WM Star Jasmine (trachelospermum jasminoides) is a very choice
and beautiful woody climber- for the- South. Be-lug a native of the southern ..."
4. A naturalist in western China: with vasculum, camera, and gun; being some by Ernest Henry Wilson, Charles Sprague Sargent (1913)
"... Thevetia, and trachelospermum are woody plants of this family in eastern North
America. It has a larger representation in southern China in Plumeria, ..."
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