Akademik

Jasminum

noun

shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine

• Syn: ↑genus Jasminum

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Oleaceae, ↑family Oleaceae, ↑olive family

• Member Meronyms: ↑jasmine

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\\ˈjazmənəm, -asm-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from French jasmin jasmine — more at jasmine

: a large genus of tropical chiefly East Indian woody vines or shrubs of the family Oleaceae having mostly pinnate leaves and flowers shaped like salvers

Useful english dictionary. 2012.