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SYRINGA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs
Synonyms:
genus Syringa; Syringa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Syringa" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Syringa"):
lilac (any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers)
Holonyms ("Syringa" is a member of...):
family Oleaceae; Oleaceae; olive family (trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
Synonyms:
mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("syringa" is a kind of...):
philadelphus (any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regions)
Holonyms ("syringa" is a member of...):
genus Philadelphus (mock orange: type and sole genus of the subfamily Philadelphaceae; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)