GENUS PHILADELPHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Philadelphus mean? 

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

1. mock orange: type and sole genus of the subfamily Philadelphaceae; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PHILADELPHUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Mock orange: type and sole genus of the subfamily Philadelphaceae; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Philadelphus"):

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)

mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa (large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes)

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

Philadelphaceae; subfamily Philadelphaceae (one genus; usually included in family Hydrangeaceae)