Definition of SYRINGA

syringa

Meanings

Plural: syringas

Noun

  • large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
  • genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs
  • Sweet mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius).
  • Any of the several flowering plants of the genus Philadelphus, such as now in the Western United States Philadelphus lewisii.
  • Any of the several flowering plants, of the genus Syringa, such as the lilacs.

Origin / Etymology

From Dutch or Middle Low German from Latin sȳrinx from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pan pipes”).

Synonyms

genus Syringa, mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius

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