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MOCK ORANGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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; mock orange; osage orange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mock orange" is a kind of...):

angiospermous yellowwood (any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States

Synonyms:

cherry laurel; laurel cherry; mock orange; Prunus caroliniana; wild orange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mock orange" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Holonyms ("mock orange" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Bumelia lycioides; mock orange; shittim; shittimwood; southern buckthorn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mock orange" is a kind of...):

buckthorn (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mock orange" is a kind of...):

philadelphus (any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regions)

Holonyms ("mock orange" is a member of...):

genus Philadelphus (mock orange: type and sole genus of the subfamily Philadelphaceae; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)

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