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PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
Synonyms:
mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Philadelphus coronarius" 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 ("Philadelphus coronarius" 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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