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A genus of plants; the lilac.

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