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sy·rin·ga       [suh-ring-guh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.mock orange (def. 1).
2.any shrub or tree of the genus Syringa, including the lilacs.
[Origin: 1655–65; < NL < Gk sȳring- (s. of sŷrinx syrinx) + NL -a -a2; name first given to mock orange, the stems of which were used in pipe-making]
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sy·rin·ga       (sə-rĭng'gə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The mock orange.


[New Latin, from Greek surinx, suring-, shepherd's pipe (from the use of its hollow stems to make pipes).]

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syringa

noun
1. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: mock orange] 
2. genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs 

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Syringa, VA Zip code(s): 23169

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Syringa

Li"lac\ (l[imac]"lak), n. [Also lilach.] [Sp. lilac, lila, Ar. l[=i]lak, fr. Per. l[=i]laj, l[=i]lanj, l[=i]lang, n[=i]laj, n[=i]l, the indigo plant, or from the kindred l[=i]lak bluish, the flowers being named from the color. Cf. Anil.]

1. (Bot.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.

2. A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.

California lilac (Bot.), a low shrub with dense clusters of purplish flowers (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus).

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