mock orange, n.
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
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Maclura pomifera bow wood mock orange osage orange
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small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
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Prunus caroliniana cherry laurel laurel cherry mock orange wild orange
shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
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Bumelia lycioides mock orange shittim shittimwood southern buckthorn
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large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
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Philadelphus coronarius mock orange syringa