mock orange

Questions about mock orange

What does mock orange mean?

mock orange means "large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mock orange?

Close synonyms include syringa, Philadelphus coronarius, southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mock orange a common word?

mock orange is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.