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syringa
| syringa amurensis japonica
| syringa emodi
| syringa josikaea
| syringa josikea
| syringa persica
syringa
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun syringa has 2 senses
- syringa(n = noun.plant) mock orange, philadelphus coronarius - large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes; Array is a member of genus philadelphus
- syringa(n = noun.plant) genus syringa - genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs; Array is a kind of dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
is a kind of philadelphus
is a member of family oleaceae, oleaceae, olive family
CIDE DICTIONARY
syringa, n. [NL., fr. Gr. , , a shepherd's pipe, tube. Cf. Syringe.].
A genus of plants; the lilac. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
syringa, n. Bot.
1 = mock orange.
2 any plant of the genus Syringa, esp. the lilac.
1 = mock orange.
2 any plant of the genus Syringa, esp. the lilac.
Etymology
mod.L, formed as SYRINX (with ref. to the use of its stems as pipe-stems)
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