yellow jasmine

or yellow jessamine

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noun

Carolina jessamine.

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Origin of yellow jasmine

First recorded in 1700–10

Words nearby yellow jasmine

yellow-headed blackbird, yellow honeysuckle, yellowish, yellow jack, yellow jacket, yellow jasmine, yellow jersey, yellow journalism, Yellowknife, yellow lady's-slipper, yellow lead ore

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How to use yellow jasmine in a sentence

Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.
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Some of the items Indonesian military aircraft saw were long yellow tubes.
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With the first set I did, the colors of the couch determined that the rest of it would be blue and yellow and white.
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Behind him stood a flock of fifth-grade boys—and two second-grade girls—all of them wearing the exact same yellow hat.
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Cosby then allegedly ordered a pre-paid yellow cab that transported Allison home.
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The pink flowers are the largest while those of a yellow color are the smallest.
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The flowers grow in clusters from the extremities of the stalk; they are yellow externally and of a delicate red within.
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He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
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In the presence of bromin the chloroform, which settles to the bottom, assumes a yellow color.
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As she peered into the face of Dr. Ashton, her own was scarlet and yellow, and her voice rose to a shriek.
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British Dictionary definitions for yellow jasmine

yellow jasmine

noun

a climbing shrub, Gelsemium sempervirens, of the southeastern US, having fragrant funnel-shaped yellow flowers: family LoganiaceaeSee also gelsemium

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