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CREPE GARDENIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
Synonyms:
Adam's apple; coffee rose; crape jasmine; crepe gardenia; crepe jasmine; East Indian rosebay; Nero's crown; pinwheel flower; Tabernaemontana divaricate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("crepe gardenia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("crepe gardenia" is a member of...):
genus Tabernaemontana; Tabernaemontana (evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap)