Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Syringa"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Syringin \Sy*rin"gin\, n. (Chem.)
A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac ({Syringa}) and
extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly
called also {lilacin}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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: {Syringa}, {genus
Syringa}]
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