Crossword clues for gardenia
gardenia
- Fragrant blossom
- Billie Holiday trademark
- Fragrant white flower
- Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers
- Corsage flower
- White flower
- Somewhat vulgar denial that can be cultivated
- Shrub in grand forest on borders of India
- Fragrant shrub
- Plant needs a place to grow it, I answer
- Plant in Grade A condition
- Drainage sorted for shrub
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gardenia \Garde"ni*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shrub genus, 1757, Modern Latin, named for Scottish-born American naturalist Dr. Alexander Garden (1730-1791), Vice President of the Royal Society, + abstract noun ending -ia.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus ''Gardenia'', having glossy leaves and white flowers. 2 The flower of these plants.
WordNet
n. any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers
Wikipedia
Gardenia is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Madagascar and Pacific Islands.
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus and John Ellis after Dr. Alexander Garden (1730-1791), a Scottish-born American naturalist.
They are evergreen shrubs and small trees growing to tall. The leaves are opposite or in whorls of three or four, long and broad, dark green and glossy with a leathery texture. The flowers are solitary or in small clusters, white, or pale yellow, with a tubular-based corolla with 5-12 lobes ( petals) from diameter. Flowering is from about mid-spring to mid-summer, and many species are strongly scented.
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Gardenia is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants
Gardenia may also refer to:
"Gardenia" is a song by American rock band Kyuss. It was released in 1995 as the second single from their third studio album, Welcome to Sky Valley (1994). It was written by the band's drummer, Brant Bjork.
Gardenia, also known as Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala, is a 1979 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Domenico Paolella. It represents the first leading role for the singer-songwriter Franco Califano.
"Gardenia is a song by American musician Iggy Pop. It was released as the lead single from his seventeenth studio album, Post Pop Depression, on January 22, 2016. The song was premiered live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on the day of the song's release. The song received positive reception from music critics and peaked at number 136 on the French Singles Chart and number 26 on the Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart.
Usage examples of "gardenia".
From Terra to Neuhafen, to Gardenia, to Asperity, to Quintesme and the radiation labs.
He no longer wished to cultivate the image of a sweet chap passionately interested in nothing except phlox, asters, freesias and gardenias.
And by the time the roast whole hog and pipi oma roastbeef had been finished off everyone was drunk, even some of the tourists were drunk, and he had stripped off his gook shirt and kicked off his sandals and rolled his slacks up to his knees and jumped out into the firelight and danced Meliani Oe for them with a gardenia snatched from the hair of the youngest wahine stuck over his ear, and that had really gotten her.
They missed their homes and loved their wives, but they were men and mostly young and they dreamed of the bare-breasted Polynesian girls with gardenias in theif long black hair and names like the jungle waterfalls.
Holding her head high, squeezing her gardenia bouquet, she walked sedately down the aisle, refusing to glance tother side, refusing to admit that she felt queasy.
They had reached The Bunyas, where from the fir-trees and the datura flowers, and the blossoming gardenias in the borders, there exhaled a strong night fragrance.
A quick glance showed that the gardenia had easily overpowered vanilla, cinnamon, bayberry, lilac, belladonna, monkshood, pholiotina, and yohimbe.
Madison Avenue, in a large second-floor corner office behind the exhibition area at Kohn and Munson Gallery, a summer scent of gardenias overpowered the delicate spring perfume of the paper-whites that sat on a wide glass-top desk.
The neckline was very low, and she knew it would form a wide, deep curve over her shoulders, which would be softened by the delicate silk flowers, gardenias tipped in pale pink, that ornamented it.
Pursing her lips, she judged the greasy substance Rena gave her as too much and blotted some off, leaving a pale, shiny color of pink on her mouth, almost the same shade as the soft gardenias at her breasts and hair.
Tiny miniature gardenias were attached to the band, and her face seemed to be framed by the delicate flowers.
The fragrance of honeysuckle, jasmine, and gardenias was heavy in the air.
Everywhere were rugs, pictures, gardenias, striped hangings, photographs, and curved settees, while on the walls hung guns, pistols, pouches, and the mounted heads of wild beasts.
Ginger mused upon her ancestresses who had left behind, in bureau drawers and standing chests, bars of petrified gardenia soap and cylinders of solid bath crystals and long-necked carafes of bath oils, their contents separated like salad dressing but which could yet be shaken and poured.
Alfie had almost certainly plucked from her the fresh gardenia of her maidenhood, for his chieftaincy of the Minids gave him carnal access to almost every female who had attained menarche.