a plant with white or yellow flowers with a sweet smell, sometimes used to make perfume and also sometimes added to tea Topics Plants and treesc2茉莉;素馨 Oxford Collocations DictionaryJasmine is used before these nouns:- scent
- tea
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French jasmin and obsolete French jessemin, from Arabic yāsamīn, from Persian yāsamīn.