gardenia
nounHow to pronounce gardenia:
Definition of gardenia:
- gardenia (noun):
- any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers.
- any of a large genus (gardenia) of old world tropical trees and shrubs of the madder family with showy fragrant white or yellow flowers
Synonyms for gardenia:
bush
cape jasmine
cape jessamine
gardenia augusta
gardenia jasminoides
shrub
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- conveniently
- Cordelia
- trampoliner
- licentious
- humorously
- evacuate
- desperado
- Bilagaana
- Ezequiel
- inscrutables
- infirmary
- doppelganger
- approximate
- perpetrator
- cooperated
- adaptable
- suffocating
- unsuspecting
- controversial
- salamander
- informative
- undecided
- Alexandrine
- excellently
- contemptible
- dispensation
- quadrillion
- frenziedly
- tonic water
- stegosaurus
- Filomena
- disconsolate
- unimportant
- kaleidoscope
- caretaker
- abnormally
- selling climax
- luminously
- bacteria
- millisecond
- consciously
- miscalculate
- ejectable
- shamelessly
- deportation
- chiropracty
- Jerusalem
- nihilism
- biographer
- monometer
- … more
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