jasmine tobacco
- noun
- /ˈdʒæzmiːn təˈbækoʊ/
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tabaco de jazmín
- She planted jasmine tobacco along the pathway for its night-blooming fragrance.
Examples
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Jasmine tobacco attracts moths with its sweet-smelling flowers after dusk.
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The garden was filled with the scent of jasmine tobacco on summer evenings.
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The jasmine tobacco in my garden smells amazing at night.
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Have you seen the jasmine tobacco blooming this season?
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Jasmine tobacco attracts moths with its sweet-smelling flowers after dusk.
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The garden was filled with the scent of jasmine tobacco on summer evenings.
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She planted jasmine tobacco along the pathway for its night-blooming fragrance.
Synonyms
A South American garden plant with white flowers that smell sweet at night
A garden plant with sweet-smelling white flowers that open at night
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'jasmine tobacco' is directly interpretable as a tobacco (Nicobiana-type) plant that has jasmine-like fragrance; the meaning follows straightforward noun+noun composition where the first noun qualifies the second. Plant-naming compounding is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows 'jasmine' and 'tobacco' would very likely infer this referent.
Etymology
The name jasmine tobacco comes from people noticing this tobacco plant smells sweet like jasmine, especially at night. So the name means 'a tobacco plant that smells like jasmine at night'.