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 Zool., the European blackcap.
 Mock orange Bot., a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes.  Philadelphus 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.
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 Or·ange n.
 1. The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (Citrus Aurantium).  It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.
 Note: ☞ There are numerous varieties of oranges; as, the bitter orange, which is supposed to be the original stock; the navel orange, which has the rudiment of a second orange imbedded in the top of the fruit; the blood orange, with a reddish juice; and the horned orange, in which the carpels are partly separated.
 2. Bot. The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.
 3. The color of an orange; reddish yellow.
 Mandarin orange. See Mandarin.
 Mock orange Bot., any species of shrubs of the genus Philadelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms.
 Native orange, or Orange thorn Bot., an Australian shrub (Citriobatus parviflorus); also, its edible yellow berries.
 Orange bird Zool., a tanager of Jamaica (Tanagra zena); -- so called from its bright orange breast.
 Orange cowry Zool., a large, handsome cowry (Cypraea aurantia), highly valued by collectors of shells on account of its rarity.
 Orange grass Bot., an inconspicuous annual American plant (Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers.
 Orange oil Chem., an oily, terpenelike substance obtained from orange rind, and distinct from neroli oil, which is obtained from the flowers.
 Orange pekoe, a kind of black tea.
 Orange pippin, an orange-colored apple with acid flavor.
 Quito orange, the orangelike fruit of a shrubby species of nightshade (Solanum Quitoense), native in Quito.
 Orange scale Zool. any species of scale insects which infests orange trees; especially, the purple scale (Mytilaspis citricola), the long scale (Mytilaspis Gloveri), and the red scale (Aspidiotus Aurantii).
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 mock orange
      n 1: large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant
           creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: syringa,
            Philadelphus coronarius]
      2: shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States
         with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit [syn:
         southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, Bumelia
         lycioides]
      3: small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
         [syn: cherry laurel, laurel cherry, wild orange, Prunus
         caroliniana]
      4: 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 [syn: osage orange,
          bow wood, Maclura pomifera]