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Frangipanni

noun

Any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers. Synonym: frangipani.

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"Frangipanni" Quotes from Famous Books

... were shrubs and brush-wood. Higher up, orchids, with their bright flowers and opal-green leaves; higher still rose a perpendicular and almost smooth rampart, utterly impassable except through the fissure which had afforded us egress. Sumichrast guided us through the thicket, where the frangipanni-plants, covered with their sweet-scented flowers, predominated, announcing our approach into the Terre-Chaude, and of a completely altered nature of vegetation. Soon an immense mahogany-tree (Swietenia mahogoni), with its thick boughs and dark-green foliage, rose before us; a little ...

— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart

... toast, butter, cheese, pickles, and salad; some macaroni, vermicelli, chowder, mullagatawny, lobsters, clams, oysters, mussels, and shrimps; also some tripe, kidneys, liver, and sausages, and calves'-foot-jelly, and stewed cranberries; also frangipanni tarts and a Charlotte-Russe, with bottles of orgeat, sherbet, and iced wines, together with mead ...

— Ting-a-ling • Frank Richard Stockton

Words linked to "Frangipanni" : Plumeria acutifolia, bush, pagoda tree, Plumeria alba, Plumeria, Plumiera, West Indian jasmine, genus Plumeria, shrub, temple tree