- Sweet-smelling flower grown in ninja’s minefield - Tea flavour - Tea flavouring, or a girl’s name - A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of
a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of
Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and,
with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false
jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other
plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis
and Faramea.
- Oil used to flavour tea - A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a
roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil
of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the
fruit. - A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata). - The essence or perfume made from the fruit. - A variety of pear. - A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. - A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or
hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at
Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.