jasmine

«jasmine» in Mova's school dictionary: a climbing plant or bush with small white or yellow… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (jasmine, jasmines); proper noun (Jasmine)

meaning for a pupil

1) Jasmine is a climbing plant or bush with small white or yellow flowers that smell very sweet. tree →

2) Jasmine tea is green tea flavoured with jasmine flowers; jasmine rice is a sweet-smelling kind of long rice. tree →

3) Jasmine is a girl's name (a name). tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature and gardening lessons, jasmine is a climbing plant that grows on walls and fences, and its scent attracts moths and bees at night. In food lessons, jasmine rice is common in Thai cooking. Jasmine is also the princess in the story of Aladdin. Phrases: «jasmine tea», «jasmine rice», «scent of jasmine».

examples

• The jasmine by the door smells lovely in summer. tree →
• We had jasmine rice with our curry. tree →
• Grandma drinks jasmine tea. tree →
• Jasmine flowers are small and white. tree →
• My friend Jasmine sits next to me. tree →
• The jasmine climbed up the garden wall. tree →
• Another prefers sitting amidst the overpowering scent of jasmine, or perfuming himself with scented olive oil. tree →

note

Uncountable for the plant in general and the scent; countable for kinds («several jasmines»). Capital J for the name. Pronounced JAZ-min.

In the corpora

• Jasmine blamed the last cookie on her sister, then the dog, then «maybe it just fell».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jasmine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.