mock orange
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.plant)
2. small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States (noun.plant)
member meronym | : | genus prunus, prunus, |
definition | : | a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions (noun.plant) |
3. shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | buckthorn, |
definition | : | any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia (noun.plant) |
4. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | philadelphus, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | genus philadelphus, |
definition | : | mock orange: type and sole genus of the subfamily Philadelphaceae; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae (noun.plant) |
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