noun
1. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
• Syn: ↑syringa, ↑Philadelphus coronarius
• Hypernyms: ↑philadelphus
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Philadelphus
2. small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
• Syn: ↑cherry laurel, ↑laurel cherry, ↑wild orange, ↑Prunus caroliniana
• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Prunus, ↑genus Prunus
3. shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
• Syn: ↑southern buckthorn, ↑shittimwood, ↑shittim, ↑Bumelia lycioides
• Hypernyms: ↑buckthorn
4. 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
• Syn: ↑osage orange, ↑bow wood, ↑Maclura pomifera
• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous yellowwood
Useful english dictionary. 2012.