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Noun: wild orange  wI(-u)ld o-rinj
  1. Small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges
    - trifoliate orange, trifoliata, Poncirus trifoliata
     
  2. Small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
    - cherry laurel, laurel cherry, mock orange, Prunus caroliniana

Derived forms: wild oranges

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree, tree

Part of: genus Poncirus, genus Prunus, Poncirus, Prunus

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