noun
- Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes.
- synonyms: syringa, Philadelphus coronarius
- Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit.
- synonyms: southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, Bumelia lycioides
- Small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States.
- synonyms: cherry laurel, laurel cherry, wild orange, Prunus caroliniana
- 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.
- synonyms: osage orange, bow wood, Maclura pomifera
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