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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jasmine
noun
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▪ A gazebo heavy with the scent of jasmine or honeysuckle.
▪ Both men wore garlands of wild jasmine, sold to them by child hawkers who worked the front of the Continental.
▪ Claire sits in the open window of John's kitchen, a cup of jasmine tea warming her hands.
▪ He was fresh from the shower; his body smelt of the oil, which was scented with jasmine.
▪ She had filled the room with sweet-scented jasmine and tall aromatic lilies.
▪ She is modest and courtly, serving jasmine tea to visitors.
▪ The rice cooker puffs away many nights, with jasmine rice scenting the air.
▪ Wisteria draped the crumbling chimney; trumpet vine and jasmine climbed above the door and under the clapboards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jasmine

Jasmine \Jas"mine\, n. [F. jasmin, Sp. jazmin, Ar. y[=a]sm[=i]n, Pers. y[=a]sm[=i]n; cf. It. gesmino, gelsomino. Cf. Jessamine.] (Bot.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The Jasminum officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is Jasminum Sambac, and, with Jasminum angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea. [Written also jessamine.]

Cape jasmine, or Cape jessamine, the Gardenia florida, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a native of China, and hardy in the Southern United States.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jasmine

1570s, from French jasmin (Middle French jessemin), from Arabic yas(a)min, from Persian yasmin (compare Greek iasme, iasmelaion, name of a Persian perfume). The plant first was grown in England 16c.

Wiktionary
jasmine

n. 1 Any of several plants, of the genus ''Jasminum'', mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers. 2 The perfume obtained from these plants. 3 Any of several unrelated plants having a similar perfume. 4 A yellow colour.

WordNet
jasmine

n. any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia

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Jasmine

Jasmine ( taxonomic name Jasminum ) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family ( Oleaceae). It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Australasia and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers. A number of unrelated plants contain the word "Jasmine" in their common names (see Other plants called "Jasmine").

Jasmine (novel)

Jasmine (1989) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the present about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times.

Jasmine (Angel)

Jasmine is a fictional character in the fourth season of the television series Angel. She is portrayed for much of the season by Charisma Carpenter (as the goddess is possessing the character of Cordelia Chase), but when she acquires her own body she is portrayed by Gina Torres. Jasmine, also known as the "Devourer," is a super being who seeks to gain corporeal form, then blend with all of humanity, making each human her spiritual slave. She feeds on humanity to maintain her form and delivers a Utopian existence to all via mind control.

Jasmine (disambiguation)

__NOTOC__ Jasmine is a flowering shrub of the genus Jasminum, or several other plants unrelated to Jasminum with similar flowers, including:

  • Brazilian jasmine Mandevilla sanderi
  • Cape jasmine Gardenia
  • Carolina jasmine, Gelsemium sempervirens
  • Chilean jasmine, Mandevilla laxa
  • Madagascar jasmine, Stephanotis floribunda
  • New Zealand jasmine, Parsonsia capsularis
  • Night-blooming jasmine, Cestrum nocturnum
  • Night-flowering jasmine, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
  • Red jasmine, Plumeria rubra
  • Star jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides
  • Tree jasmine (disambiguation)

Jasmine may also refer to:

Jasmine (Taiwanese singer)

Jasmine (; born January 5, 1981), also known as Ting Chu, is a singer-songwriter who made her debut in the Taiwanese music industry in 2007. She has a contract under start-up recording company HummingBird Music, the same company Hong Kong-based band Soler belongs to.

Jasmine (Finnish singer)

Jasmine Tatjana Anette Valentin (stage name Jasmine, born Helsinki, 22 August 1976) is a Finnish Romani singer.

She represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 by song Niin kaunis on taivas and became 23rd. After Eurovision she gigged in different countries like in Turkey, Spain and Greece.

Jasmine (Japanese singer)

Jasmine (stylized as JASMINE) (born May 19, 1989), is a Japanese singer, songwriter and producer whose real given name is . She is represented by Sony Music Japan, and is a DJ for the Japanese radio station J-Wave. In June 2009, she released her debut single "Sad to Say". Described as "the next Hikaru Utada", Jasmine cites Utada as her influence.

Jasmine (album)

Jasmine is a 2010 duet album by American pianist Keith Jarrett and bassist Charlie Haden. It was released on 12 May 2010. The album was recorded in 2007 at Jarrett's home studio in Oxford Township, New Jersey during the recording of a documentary about Haden.

Jasmine (family)

The Jasmine family is an American family notable for its entrepreneurial endeavors in the U.S. Northeast. The family garnered modest prominence through its business as the major distributor of fresh produce in Reconstruction era New York City. Until the 1920s, the Jasmine food goods trade became an innovator in using the railroads to carry produce, preserved foods, and wine from California to markets and vendors in the New York tri-state area. Most early Jasmine family interests were sold and incorporated into the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in 1899, allowing that company to vastly expand its holdings and stores in the New York metropolitan area. Since the 1920s, the Jasmine family has been involved in philanthropy, including support for Catholic schools and education.

Jasmine (given name)

Jasmine is a feminine given name. It refers to the scented flowering plant, jasmine. It is originated from Persian یاسمین or یاسمن, which means the Yas flower. The name has been popular in a number of countries in recent years. In the United States, it first entered the top 1,000 list of most popular names in 1973. It has remained among the top 100 names given to American girls since 1986, and was ranked at No. 43 in 2008. Variant Yasemin was the most popular name given to baby girls born in Turkey in 2008–2009. Variant Yasmin was ranked among the top 10 names given to Brazilian girls in 2009 and is also very popular in Israel, and variant Jazmín (pronounced Hasmin) was among the top 5 names given to girls in Córdoba, Argentina in 2009. Variant Jázmin is in among the top 10 names given to girls born in Hungary. Variant Yasmine is popular in Brussels, Belgium.

Jasmine (color)

The color jasmine is a pale tint of yellow, displayed at right. It is a representation of the average color of the more yellowish lower part of the pale yellowish white colored jasmine flower. The first recorded use of jasmine as a color name in English was in 1925.

Jasmine (American singer)

Jasmine Alexandria Sagginario, better known simply as Jasmine (born September 1, 1994), is an American pop singer and songwriter. Jasmine is best known for winning Radio Disney's 2009 N.B.T. (Next Big Thing) competition. She was a featured artist for TBN's iShine KNECT, providing the show's original theme song. To date, Jasmine has released one album under iShine Records and several standalone singles, including singles that have been featured on major compilation albums and soundtracks.

Jasmine (musician)

Jasmine may refer to:

  • Jasmine (American singer), an American singer-songwriter and Radio Disney N.B.T. winner.
  • Jasmine (Finnish singer), a Finnish singer and EuroVision Song Contest participant
  • Jasmine (Japanese singer), a Japanese singer
  • Jasmine (Taiwanese singer), the English name of Taiwanese singer Ting Chu.
Jasmine (JavaScript testing framework)

Jasmine is an open source testing framework for JavaScript. It aims to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform, to not intrude on the application nor the IDE, and to have easy-to-read syntax. It is heavily influenced by other unit testing frameworks, such as ScrewUnit, JSSpec, JSpec, and RSpec.

Jasmine (TV series)

Jasmine (stylized as JASMINE) is a Philippine mystery drama series broadcast by TV5, which produced it together with Ace Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Inc. (the Philippine affiliate of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide) and Unitel Productions Inc. It premiered on June 1, 2014 and airs every Sunday evenings at 9:15 PM, under the direction of Mark Meily.

Starting June 22, 2014, the Philippine mystery drama series will airs earlier every Sunday afternoon 5:00pm, and replays evening 10:00pm. The series ended on August 3, 2014.

Usage examples of "jasmine".

They also favour certain plants for living quarters, among them agapanthus, lilies, irises, ice plants, ivy, nasturtiums, jasmine and strawberries.

Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.

Supposedly in her bridal tent, lounging in a silken gown among silken cushions with kohl on her eyelids, henna on her fingertips, attar of rose, jasmine, and orange blossom perfuming the air, Zohra instead was standing on the very top of the Tel, dressed in an old caftan and trousers that she had stolen from her father.

In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.

Chaos was loudly surprised to see that the rabbit was still tagging along, and Fiddlesticks demanded explanations and fish in the same breath, while Jasmine pretended to find the whole affair boring beyond expression.

I took my niece for a sail in the bay, and after we had enjoyed one of those delicious evenings which I think can be found nowhere else-- sailing on a mirror silvered by the moon, over which float the odours of the jasmine, the orange-blossom, the pomegranates, the aloes, and all the scented flowers which grow along the coasts--we returned to our lodging, and I asked Annette what had become of Marcoline.

Her hair is clean and has the cinnamon odour now common to her, but it is tangled and unkempt and as different as hair may possibly be from the jasmine scented coif that I erected every morning until recently.

Jasmine, forsythia, Hypericum and mallow straggle over the bases of the wooden beams which support the end wall of the row of shops.

American millionairess playfully feeding you jasmined lychees from a Queen Anne silver spoon.

This place had filled her head with voodoo and jasmine in the dark and with the essence of an octaroon girl who was transformed, by the act of her mother, into the undead and who was torn, by her love for a human, between two irreconcilable worlds.

The night-jars, even the bats, had stilled their wings and slept in the limbs of the neem or the pipal, and the air that had borne the soft perfume of blossoms, and the pungent breath of jasmine, had chilled and grown heavy from the pressure of advancing night.

Her name was Jasmine Devereaux, and, according to this, the portrait was commissioned by Captain John Stockard himself.

Also, there is no longer any pretence of attending school these daysand nobody is mentioning my truancy, so I guess Jasmine told the family to be hush.

Murdoch, Jasmine, and Peregrine crabbed to a mast and unlashed eight-foot boarding pikes.

He drank in the fragrance of her hair, the wild, sweet tang of vetiver and jasmine, while his lips felt the smooth silken texture of her skin.