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n. - Any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of a particular genus having fragrant waxy flowers.

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  • It's tradition for bridal bouquets to contain white or cream-colored flowers such as stephanotis, roses, orchids, or lilies.
  • Not that I knew anything at all beyond the fact that stephanotis, whatever it was, was always in the bride's bouquet.
  • If they are not procurable, substitute great half-opened rose-buds, deepest pink and cream-color, and add the broken stars of the stephanotis.
  • And in the bow with which he further defined his discomfort he added to it by dropping the bit of stephanotis which he wore in his buttonhole.
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