noun
woody vine of Argentina grown as an ornamental for its glossy leaves and racemes of large fragrant funnel-shaped creamy-white flowers
• Syn: ↑Mandevilla laxa
• Hypernyms: ↑liana
• Member Holonyms: ↑Mandevilla, ↑genus Mandevilla, ↑Dipladenia, ↑genus Dipladenia
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nounUsage: usually capitalized C
: a showy woody vine (Mandevilla laxa) of the family Apocynaceae used as an ornamental and having axillary or terminal racemes of white or blush flowers each of which may be two inches across
Useful english dictionary. 2012.