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.
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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.
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