syringa
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of syringa
1655–65; < New Latin < Greek sȳring- (stem of sŷrinx syrinx ) + New Latin -a -a 2; name first given to mock orange, the stems of which were used in pipe-making
Example Sentences
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There’s a California lilac — not the true syringa lilac of rhapsodic song and poetry but a ceanothus.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
The poem recalled Dr. Crozier as a bald, bigheaded boy who waged war with syringa berries, “the stick-breaker, the toddler I carried on my shoulders up and down the dirt tracks.”
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2014
It was called "Heaven Trees," a place of calm walks and lawns, fragrant with myrtle and syringa.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the most useful and harmless of all leaves for flavoring is that of the common syringa.
It was nearly twilight: I lay flat on top of the wall under the curving branches of a huge syringa bush in full bloom.
From The Slayer Of souls by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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