philadelphus coronarius

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmock orangesyringa

   Broaderphiladelphus

   Part ofgenus Philadelphus

Questions about philadelphus coronarius

What does philadelphus coronarius mean?

philadelphus coronarius means "large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes".

What is another word for philadelphus coronarius?

Close synonyms include mock orange, syringa. 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 philadelphus coronarius a common word?

philadelphus coronarius is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.