Syringa

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  syringa
       n 1: large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant
            creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: {mock
            orange}, {Philadelphus coronarius}]
       2: genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant
          flowers in showy panicles: lilacs [syn: {genus Syringa}]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Syringa, VA
    Zip code(s): 23169