'Syringa' definitions:
Definition of 'syringa'
(from WordNet)
noun
Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy- white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: mock orange, syringa, Philadelphus coronarius]
noun
Genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs [syn: Syringa, genus Syringa]
Definition of 'Syringa'
From: GCIDE
- 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]