gardenia

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gardenia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gardenia \Garde"ni*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
     A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful
     and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of
     Dr. Alexander Garden.
     [1913 Webster]

gardenia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gardenia
      n 1: any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia
           having large fragrant white or yellow flowers