Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Philadelphus"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mock \Mock\, a.
Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed;
sham.

That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator.

{Mock bishop's weed} (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous
herbs ({Discopleura}) growing in wet places.

{Mock heroic}, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic
poem.

{Mock lead}. See {Blende} (
a ).

{Mock nightingale} (Zo["o]l.), the European blackcap.

{Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs
({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled
cymes. {P. coronarius}, from Asia, has fragrant flowers;
the American kinds are nearly scentless.

{Mock sun}. See {Parhelion}.

{Mock turtle soup}, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or
other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle
soup.

{Mock velvet}, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See
{Mockado}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

philadelphus
n : 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


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