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Mock orange

noun

Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes. Synonyms: Philadelphus coronarius, syringa.

Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit. Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, shittim, shittimwood, southern buckthorn.

Small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States. Synonyms: cherry laurel, laurel cherry, Prunus caroliniana, wild orange.

Small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge. Synonyms: bow wood, Maclura pomifera, osage orange.

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"Mock orange" Quotes from Famous Books

... more or less untrimmed, untrained condition of luxuriantly natural growth. Here the syringa, a name sometimes given by horticultural pedants to the lilac, for no reason at all except to create confusion in the innocent minds of amateur growers, was opening its white 'mock orange' blossoms, and a mass of flowering aconites spread out before him like a carpet of woven gold. Here, too, tufts of bluebells peeked forth from behind the moss-grown stems of several ancient oaks and elms, and purple pansies bordered the edge of the grass. A fine old wistaria grown in tree-form, ...

— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

Words linked to "Mock orange" : angiospermous tree, angiospermous yellowwood, shittim, flowering tree, genus Prunus, philadelphus, buckthorn, genus Philadelphus, Prunus