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syringa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Syringa \Sy*rin"ga\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a shepherd's pipe, tube. Cf. Syringe.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants; the lilac.
The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
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.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several flowering plants, of the genus ''Syringa'', such as the lilacs.
WordNet
n. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius]
genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs [syn: genus Syringa]
Wikipedia
Syringa (lilac) is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family ( Oleaceae), native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and widely and commonly cultivated in temperate areas elsewhere.
The genus is most closely related to Ligustrum (privet), classified with it in Oleaceae tribus Oleeae subtribus Ligustrinae.
Lilacs are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including copper underwing, scalloped oak and Svensson's copper underwing.
Syringa is a genus of woody shrubs and trees, commonly known as lilacs.
Syringa may also refer to:
- 1104 Syringa, an asteroid
- Syringa Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
- Melia azedarach, a species of deciduous tree commonly but erroneously called Syringa in South Africa
- Philadelphus, particularly P. lewisii, sometimes confusingly known as syringa
- Syringa Marshall-Burnett (1935–2014), former President of the Senate of Jamaica
- Syringa Wireless, on the list of United States wireless communications service providers
- Syringa, Virginia, United States
Usage examples of "syringa".
Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.
After crossing one of the low spurs of the Nikkosan mountains, we wound among ravines whose steep sides are clothed with maple, oak, magnolia, elm, pine, and cryptomeria, linked together by festoons of the redundant Wistaria chinensis, and brightened by azalea and syringa clusters.
Ever since I can remember, a pair of them have built in a gigantic syringa near our front door, and I have known the male to sing almost uninterruptedly during the evenings of early summer till twilight duskened into dark.
And hanging over the oak fences lilac and laburnum, and red thorn, and syringa, and purple buddleia, and pyrus floribunda.
Beck sat quietly in the syringa and snowberry, invisibly tethered to Rachel, who appeared to be sleeping.
The mountains through which it forces its way on the other side are precipitous and wooded to their summits with coniferae, while the less abrupt side, along which the tract is carried, curves into green knolls in its lower slopes, sprinkled with grand Spanish chestnuts scarcely yet in blossom, with maples which have not yet lost the scarlet which they wear in spring as well as autumn, and with many flowering trees and shrubs which are new to me, and with an undergrowth of red azaleas, syringa, blue hydrangea--the very blue of heaven--yellow raspberries, ferns, clematis, white and yellow lilies, blue irises, and fifty other trees and shrubs entangled and festooned by the wistaria, whose beautiful foliage is as common as is that of the bramble with us.
The delirious spices of balm, bay, spruce, juniper, yerba buena, wild syringa, and strange aromatic herbs as yet unclassified, distilled and evaporated in that mighty heat, and seemed to fire with a midsummer madness all who breathed their fumes.
Syringa Baccifera is a synonym of Mitchella repens or Partridge Berry and must not be confused with S.