| 单词 | night jasmine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnight jasmine night jasmine n. either of two shrubs with flowers which are fragrant at night: (a) Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (family Oleaceae), native to South-East Asia; (b) Cestrum nocturnum (family Solanaceae), native to the West Indies (also called lady of the night). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > jasmine jasmine1548 Indian mourner1597 jesse1597 makebate1597 sad tree1597 shrub trefoil1597 sorrowful tree1597 double pipe-tree1629 jessamy1631 mogra1662 melancholy tree1760 night jasmine1866 sampaguita1902 pikake1933 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 796/2 Nyctanthes, Arbor tristis, the Night Jasmine of India, is a shrub or small tree of the Jasminaceæ. 1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine ix. 49 The bush of night-jasmine. 1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 874 C[estrum] nocturnum, L. Night Jessamine..fls. greenish-white to cream-colored, very fragrant at night... W. Indies. 1966 P. Sherlock W. Indian Folk Tales 100 A cool breeze..laden with the perfume of logwood-trees, wild mint, and the heavy sweetness of night jasmine. 1989 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 6 May 21/6 Cestrum nocturnum, the night jessamine and dracaena fragrans..are normally grown for foliage display, but when allowed to bloom they can make the garden pleasurable at night. < as lemmas |
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