Definitions for Gardenia

Gardenia gar·de·nia

Spelling: [gahr-dee-nyuh, -nee-uh]
IPA: /gɑrˈdi nyə, -ni ə/

Gardenia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in Gardenia (aadeginr).

Definitions for Gardenia

noun

  1. any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
  2. the flower of any of these plants.

Origin of Gardenia

New Latin (1760), after Alexander Garden (1730-91), American physician; see -ia

Examples for Gardenia

Sarah Hopkins refers to Genevieve and Roberta and me as gardenia girls!

And now what will you wear in your button-hole—a gardenia, or some violets?

An orchid, a gardenia, even a hyacinth, was never to be seen in the little house.

The gardenia flowers now so much favored for wearing are expensive.

When he returned, Sassafras always noticed a gardenia in his button-hole.

Creamy looking posies, kind of kin to a gardenia, seems to me!

The scent of the gardenia was strong in her little bedroom, and pleasant to her.

The fellow is to wear a white top hat, and a gardenia in his buttonhole.

He was like the anarchist with a gardenia in his buttonhole who figures in the higher melodrama.

Tearing the gardenia from her breast, she flung it on to his upturned face.

Word Value for Gardenia
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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