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PHILADELPHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does philadelphus mean? 

PHILADELPHUS (noun)
  The noun PHILADELPHUS has 1 sense:

1. any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regionsplay

  Familiarity information: PHILADELPHUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHILADELPHUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("philadelphus" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "philadelphus"):

mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa (large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes)

Holonyms ("philadelphus" 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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