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noun large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
noun genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs
originFrom Dutch or Middle Low German from Latin sȳrinx from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pan pipes”).
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