Persian lilac
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Syringa × persica, a shrub in the olive family (Oleaceae)
"But in the garden was life in all its glad and bright hues: the early roses and the late violets opened their urns, exhaling in perfume the drops they caught, till every breath was pleasure; the laburnums, those prodigals of fleeting wealth, were covered with gold; and the Persian lilacs waved graceful as the Circassian maidens, to whom they are so often compared in eastern song."
- 2 small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers wordnet
- 3 Melia azedarach, a tree in the mahogany family (Meliaceae)
- 4 tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree wordnet
Example
More examples"But in the garden was life in all its glad and bright hues: the early roses and the late violets opened their urns, exhaling in perfume the drops they caught, till every breath was pleasure; the laburnums, those prodigals of fleeting wealth, were covered with gold; and the Persian lilacs waved graceful as the Circassian maidens, to whom they are so often compared in eastern song."