Search Result for "syringa":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes;
[syn: mock orange, syringa, Philadelphus coronarius]
2. genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs;
[syn: Syringa, genus Syringa]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Syringa \Sy*rin"ga\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a shepherd's pipe, tube. Cf. Syringe.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants; the lilac. (b) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems. [1913 Webster]U.S. Gazetteer (1990):
Syringa, VA Zip code(s): 23169
