syringa

Other forms of syringa

plural

syringas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about syringa

What does syringa mean?

syringa means "large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in syringa?

syringa has 3 syllables: sy-rin-ga. The stress falls on "sy".

What is another word for syringa?

Close synonyms include mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius, genus Syringa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is syringa a common word?

syringa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.