Syringa > define

noun

• Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes.
  • synonyms: mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius
• Genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs.
  • synonyms: genus Syringa

• (n.) A genus of plants; the lilac.
• (n.) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.