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English noun: syringa

1. syringa (plant) large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes


Synonymsmock orange, Philadelphus coronarius


Broader (hypernym)philadelphus


Member meronymgenus Philadelphus

2. Syringa (plant) genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs


Synonymsgenus Syringa


Broader (hypernym)dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus


Member holonymlilac


Member meronymfamily Oleaceae, Oleaceae, olive family









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