Meanings
plural Persian lilacs
- Syringa × persica, a shrub in the olive family (Oleaceae).
1 more example
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.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 285–286 - Melia azedarach, a tree in the mahogany family (Meliaceae).
Synonyms & antonyms
nountree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
nounsmall densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Persian lilac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Persian%20lilac
“Persian lilac.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Persian%20lilac. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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