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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:
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)
