noun
- Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree.
- Small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers.
- synonyms: Syringa persica
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