yellow jasmine
- noun
- /ˈjɛloʊ ˈdʒæzmin/
- US
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jazmín amarillo
- She was careful to avoid the yellow jasmine vine, knowing it could be toxic to her pets.
Examples
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The garden was filled with the sweet scent of yellow jasmine blooming in the spring.
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When she was gone, I locked my gate, turned my chair into a thicket of yellow jasmine, and lifted the corner of the white dropcloth.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the southern U.S., yellow jasmine is often admired for its bright yellow flowers and pleasant fragrance.
Synonyms
An evergreen climbing vine from the southern United States with fragrant yellow flowers poisonous to people and pets
An evergreen climbing plant from the southeastern United States with sweet-smelling yellow trumpet flowers that is poisonous
A poisonous evergreen climbing plant with fragrant yellow flowers from the southern United States
A poisonous woody evergreen vine with sweet-smelling yellow flowers shaped like funnels in the southeastern United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase denotes a jasmine that is yellow and this meaning is directly compositional from 'yellow' (color) + 'jasmine' (the plant), so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer it refers to a jasmine plant with yellow flowers. Specific botanical or regional details (poisonous vine, geographic distribution) are additional encyclopedic information not deducible from the words but do not prevent the compound from being transparently understandable.
Etymology
Yellow jasmine paints a simple picture: bright yellow flowers that smell like real jasmine. So, the name helps you remember that yellow jasmine is a yellow, jasmine-scented vine that is 'poisonous'.
