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n. Any of various shrubs of the genus Syringa, especially S. vulgaris, widely cultivated for its clusters of fragrant purplish or white flowers.

n. A pale to light or moderate purple.

n. A large shrub of the genus Syringa, bearing white, pale pink or purple flowers.

n. Lilac flowers.

n. A pale purple colour, the colour of some lilac flowers.

adj. having a pale purple colour.

n. A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and Syringa Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.

n. A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.

n. A shrub of the genus Syringa. See Syringa.

n. The color of the common lilac-blossom; a pale-purple color. A color-disk composed of one half artificial ultramarine, one sixth Chinese vermilion, and one third white will give a lilac.

Of the light-purple color of the flower of the common lilac.

n. A fanciers' name for a peculiar bluish-gray color shown in the coats of some domesticated mice.

adj. of a pale purple color

n. any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers

"At the next table sat a Moslem woman wearing a silk overall striped in lilac and purple and dull blue."

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african lilac    charles x. lilac    hungarian lilac    summer lilac    native lilac    victorian lilac    cape lilac    german lilac    australian lilac    indian lilac   

lilacky   

lavender    jasmine    violet    hawthorn    bluish    mauve    scarlet    daffodil    rosy    floral