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Stephanotis

noun
1.
Any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers.



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"Stephanotis" Quotes from Famous Books



... and strange as a fairy tale. The weird and wizened old man, grinning and nodding his head at them. The handsome room, rich with dark, subdued colour, in the dim light of four wax candles, two on the table, two on the mantelpiece. The perfume of stephanotis and tea-roses, blended faintly with the all-pervading odour of latakia and Turkish attar. All was alike strange, bearing in mind that this old man was a recipient of Lady Maulevrier's charity, a hanger-on upon a confidential servant, who might be supposed to be generously treated ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... gradually as the days lengthen. Start old and young plants of Clerodendrons, Dipladenias, and Stephanotis, in a sweet bottom heat. Rondeletias to be cut in, and started ...
— In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year • William Keane
... said the girl, smiling through her tears, as she rearranged the old officer's tie, and gave a dainty touch to the stephanotis in the buttonhole of his blue frock coat. "And you know you want to see her happily married to the man she loves, and who loves ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Stephanotis" :   bush, waxflower, Madagascar jasmine, shrub


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