jessamine
jessamine — noun
- jessaminesingular
- jessaminesplural
1. A climbing plant that grows on walls or fences, producing many small flowers wit
A climbing plant that grows on walls or fences, producing many small flowers with a sweet smell; the flowers are often white, yellow, or pink.
The jessamine covering the back wall of Suki's house had small white flowers.
jessamine + covering [surface] — climbing habit pattern
Every summer, the scent of jessamine fills the garden near Vikram's kitchen window.
collocation: scent of jessamine
Lucia planted a jessamine next to the wooden fence in her mother's garden.
The pale yellow jessamine flowers opened one by one as the weather grew warm.
Tariq spent Sunday morning cutting back the overgrown jessamine along the side path.
- jasmine
far more common name for the same group of plants; 'jasmine' is used in everyday contexts while 'jessamine' appears more in botanical or historical writing
文法句型
jessamine + verb (grows, climbs, flowers)
用法筆記
Countable when referring to an individual plant (a jessamine) or a variety; uncountable when referring to the plant generally (a wall covered with jessamine). Less common in everyday speech than 'jasmine', but the two words often refer to the same plant.