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UK
/sɪɹˈɪndʒɐ/
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NOUN
- large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
How To Use syringa In A Sentence
- Wistaria chinensis, and brightened by azalea and syringa clusters. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- Spiræas, syringas, weigelas, and deutzias were also used.
- But when I go back to Aunt Jane's garden, I pass through the front yard and the back yard between rows of lilac, syringas, calycanthus, and honeysuckle; I open the rickety gate, and find myself in a genuine old-fashioned garden, the homely, inclusive spot that welcomed all growing things to its hospitable bounds, type of the days when there were no impassable barriers of gold and caste between man and his brother man. Aunt Jane of Kentucky
- The leaves of various kinds receive the water very differently: some are completely bathed, showing a smooth surface of varnished green from stem to point, like the lilac of the garden, for instance; on others, like the syringa, the fluid lies in flattened transparent drops, taking an emerald color from the leaf on which they rest; while the rose and the honeysuckle wear those spherical diamond-like drops, sung by poets and sipped by fairies. Rural Hours
- If you are serious about lilacs, Lilacs: The Genus Syringa, is the one book that belongs on your bookshelf.
- Some flowers that were suggested included the dogwood, syringa, gaillardia, Washington holly, wild rose, and marguerite.
- New Zealand ' s bio-security agency warned it ' s unsure whether the suspected outbreak of pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae that could wipe out orchards of the hairy fruit has already spread across the country. World Watch
- My favorite thing was all of the syringa flowers, like etched on the carpet how do they even do that? and in the glass windows...very pretty. Twin Falls Temple
- For shrubs that bloom in early spring, like lilac (Syringa spp.), forsythia (Forsythia x intermedia) and weigela (Weigela florida), prune immediately after the blooms fade or you'll remove next year's flower buds. The Seattle Times
- So far, ramorum dieback has been found mostly on rhododendrons and viburnums, although it has also been identified on camellia, kalmia, pieris, syringa and yew.