mock-orange
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Wikipedia mock-orange (uncountable)
- Any of many shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white, fragrant flowers
- Any of several similar but unrelated plants such as syringa
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- 1923, Katherine Mansfield, The Canary
- Often, from the window I used to see people stop at the gate to listen, or they would lean over the fence by the mock-orange for quite a long time - carried away.
