| mock orange 
 
 1. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
 • Syn:
 syringa, Philadelphus coronarius
 • Hypernyms:
 philadelphus
 • Member Holonyms:
 genus Philadelphus
 2. small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
 • Syn:
 cherry laurel, laurel cherry, wild orange, Prunus caroliniana
 • Hypernyms:
 angiospermous tree, flowering tree
 • Member Holonyms:
 Prunus, genus Prunus
 3. shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
 • Syn:
 southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, Bumelia lycioides
 • Hypernyms:
 buckthorn
 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
 • Syn:
 osage orange, bow wood, Maclura pomifera
 • Hypernyms:
 angiospermous yellowwood
 
 
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