mock-orange
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See also: mock orange
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Any of many shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white, fragrant flowers, for which they are cultivated outside their natural range
- especially, Philadelphus coronarius (sweet mock orange), widely cultivated
- Philadelphus lewisii (Lewis' mock-orange), of western North America
- Any of several similar but not closely related plants.
- Bursaria spinosa (Australian blackthorn)
- Maclura pomifera (Osage orange), of North America
- Murraya paniculata (orange jessamine), a small tree ranging from East Asia to Australasia
- Pittosporum tobira, native to China, Japan, and Korea, and naturalized and cultivated elsewhere
- Pittosporum undulatum (sweet pittosporum), of Australia
- Styrax americanus (American snowbell)
Quotations
[edit]- 1923, Katherine Mansfield, The Canary:
- Often, from the window I used to see people stop at the gate to listen, or they would lean over the fence by the mock-orange for quite a long time - carried away.
Translations
[edit]Philadelphus spp.
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References
[edit]- “mock-orange”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “mock-orange”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- mock-orange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia