mock : Idioms & Phrases

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mock azalia

  • noun South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics
    impala lily; kudu lily; Adenium multiflorum; Adenium obesum; desert rose.
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Mock bishop's weed

  • (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.
Webster 1913

Mock heroic

  • burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem.
Webster 1913

Mock lead

  • . See Blende (a).
Webster 1913

Mock nightingale

  • (Zoöl.), the European blackcap.
Webster 1913

Mock orange

  • noun large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
    syringa; Philadelphus coronarius.
  • noun shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
    Bumelia lycioides; shittim; shittimwood; southern buckthorn.
  • noun small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
    cherry laurel; laurel cherry; wild orange; Prunus caroliniana.
  • noun 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
    bow wood; Maclura pomifera; osage orange.
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  • (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.
Webster 1913

mock privet

  • noun evergreen shrub with white flowers and olivelike fruits
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Mock sun

  • noun a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals
    sundog; parhelion.
    • two or more parhelia are usually seen at once
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  • . See Parhelion.
Webster 1913

Mock turtle soup

  • noun soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup
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  • a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
Webster 1913

mock up

  • verb construct a model of
    model.
    • model an airplane
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Mock velvet

  • a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.
Webster 1913

mock-heroic

  • noun a satirical imitation of heroic verse
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mock-up

  • noun full-scale working model of something built for study or testing or display
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mocking thrush

  • noun thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
    thrasher.
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