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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