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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
syringa
    n 1: large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-
         white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: mock
         orange, syringa, Philadelphus coronarius]
    2: genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant
       flowers in showy panicles: lilacs [syn: Syringa, genus
       Syringa]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
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