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mock orange   (TTS Sound)

The noun mock orange has 4 senses

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


• southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, mock orange, Bumelia lycioides -- (shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit)


• cherry laurel, laurel cherry, mock orange, wild orange, Prunus caroliniana -- (small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States)


• osage orange, bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera -- (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)