mock orange

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

• small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States

• shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

• large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  osage orange , bow wood , Maclura pomifera , cherry laurel , laurel cherry , wild orange , Prunus caroliniana , southern buckthorn , shittimwood , shittim , Bumelia lycioides , syringa , Philadelphus coronarius