syringa

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  1. noun The mock orange.

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  • I could not do without a [200] syringa, for the sake of Cowper's line. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • But later in the evening, when Miss Celia was singing like a nightingale, the boy slipped away from sleepy Bab and Betty to stand by the syringa-bush and listen, with his heart full of new thoughts and happy feelings, for never before had he spent a Sunday like this. —  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
  • Long ropes of smilax and syringa, intertwined with pink tulle, swung from the high ceiling. —  Heart of Gold
  • I could not do without a syringa, for the sake of Cowper's line. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
  • 149-50 Laburnum rich In streaming gold; syringa, ivory pure 164] The Austens were about to become Lord Lansdowne's tenants in Castle Square 165] Johnson to Boswell, July 4, 1774.--Birkbeck Hill's Boswell_, ii. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
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  1. New Latin, from Greek surinx, suring-, shepherd's pipe (from the use of its hollow stems to make pipes).

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  1. New Latin, first applied (Lobel, 1576; Tournefort, 1700) to the mock-orange, its stems freed from pith being used for pipe-sticks, later also (Linnæus, 1737) to the lilac, formerly called pipe-tree: see syringe.
 

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