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PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS

Dictionary entry overview: What does Philadelphus coronarius mean?

• PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS (noun)
The noun PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Philadelphus coronarius ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa

Hypernyms ("Philadelphus coronarius" is a kind of...):

philadelphus (any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regions)

Holonyms ("Philadelphus coronarius" is a member of...):

genus Philadelphus (mock orange: type and sole genus of the subfamily Philadelphaceae; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)

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