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yellow jasmine

Also, yellow jessamine.


Origin:
1700–10
Car·o·li·na jasmine also Car·o·li·na jessamine   (kār'ə-lī'nə)   
n.  Any of several poisonous, woody, evergreen vines of the genus Gelsemium, especially G. sempervirens, of the southeast United States, having fragrant, yellow, funnel-shaped flowers. Also called Carolina yellow jasmine, evening trumpet flower, yellow jessamine.
yellow jessamine  
n.  See Carolina jasmine.

Main Entry: yellow jes·sa·mine
Pronunciation: -'jes-(&-)m&n
Function: noun
: a twining evergreen shrub of the genus Gelsemium(G. sempervirens) with fragrant yellow flowers and a root formerly used in medicine called also yellow jasmine; —see GELSEMIUM 2
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