PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa

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Nouns denoting plants

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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