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PHILADELPHUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("philadelphus" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "philadelphus"):
mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa (large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes)
Holonyms ("philadelphus" 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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