mock orange

n 1: large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant

creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: {syringa},

{Philadelphus coronarius}]

2: shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States

with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit [syn:

{southern buckthorn}, {shittimwood}, {shittim}, {Bumelia

lycioides}]

3: small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States

[syn: {cherry laurel}, {laurel cherry}, {wild orange}, {Prunus

caroliniana}]

4: small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central

United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and

inedible orangelike fruit; its hard orange-colored wood

used for bows by native Americans; frequently planted as

boundary hedge [syn: {osage orange}, {bow wood}, {Maclura

pomifera}]