Found 2 items, similar to Syringa.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: syringa syringa n 1: large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: mock orange , Philadelphus coronarius] 2: genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs [syn: genus Syringa]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Syringa 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] Syringin \Sy*rin"gin\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin. [1913 Webster]