mock orange

Noun

Meaning

small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States

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

shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

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Alternative names

mock-orange

Synonyms

osage orange cherry laurel shittimwood shittim syringa laurel cherry Prunus caroliniana Bumelia lycioides southern buckthorn bow wood Maclura pomifera Philadelphus coronarius wild orange orange flower

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Hypernyms

buckthorn philadelphus angiospermous tree flowering tree angiospermous yellowwood

Examples

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I noticed the mock orange is blooming early. Source: Internet

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