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Syringa definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SYRIN'GA, n. [Gr. a pipe.] A genus of plants, the lilac.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Greek syring-, syrinx panpipe Date: 1664 mock orange 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Bot. 1 = mock orange. 2 any plant of the genus Syringa, esp. the lilac. Etymology: mod.L, formed as SYRINX (with ref. to the use of its stems as pipe-stems)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.