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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: lilacsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Syringa; Syringa

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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 racemesplay

    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)

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