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A genus of plants; the lilac.
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Definitions
- n. A genus of plants; the lilac.
- n. The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
- n. large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
- (a) A genus of plants; the lilac. (b) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
- n. genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs