Mock orange Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Definitions
  1. (Bot.), any species of shrubs of the genus Philadelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.

Webster 1913