GARDENIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does gardenia mean? • GARDENIA (noun)
The noun GARDENIA has 1 sense:
1. any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers
Familiarity information: GARDENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GARDENIA (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("gardenia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gardenia"):
cape jasmine; cape jessamine; Gardenia augusta; Gardenia jasminoides (evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves)
Holonyms ("gardenia" is a member of...):
genus Gardenia (large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees)
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