Definitions for mock orange
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
mock′ or′ange(n.)
Category: Plants
Ref: Also called syringa.
any of various other shrubs or trees having flowers or fruit resembling those of the orange.
Category: Plants
Origin of mock orange:
1725–35
Princeton's WordNet
mock orange, syringa, Philadelphus coronarius(noun)
large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, mock orange, Bumelia lycioides(noun)
shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
cherry laurel, laurel cherry, mock orange, wild orange, Prunus caroliniana(noun)
small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
osage orange, bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera(noun)
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
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