MOCK ORANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mock orange mean? 

• MOCK ORANGE (noun)
  The noun MOCK ORANGE has 4 senses:

1. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

2. shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

3. small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States

4. 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

  Familiarity information: MOCK ORANGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOCK ORANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bumelia lycioides; mock orange; shittim; shittimwood; southern buckthorn

Hypernyms ("mock orange" is a kind of...):

buckthorn (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cherry laurel; laurel cherry; mock orange; Prunus caroliniana; wild orange

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 4

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bow wood; Maclura pomifera; mock orange; osage orange

Hypernyms ("mock orange" is a kind of...):

angiospermous yellowwood (any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood)