SYRINGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Syringa mean? 

• SYRINGA (noun)
  The noun SYRINGA has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: SYRINGA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYRINGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mock orange; Philadelphus coronarius; syringa

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Syringa; Syringa

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)