syringa

noun

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

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

Roots

syrinxsyring- · Greek · pipe, tube a-a · Latin · feminine noun ending

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