PERSIAN LILAC
Dictionary entry overview: What does Persian lilac mean?
• PERSIAN LILAC (noun)
The noun PERSIAN LILAC has 2 senses:
1. tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
2. small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers
Familiarity information: PERSIAN LILAC used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PERSIAN LILAC (noun)
Meaning:
Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Persian lilac; Melia azederach; Melia azedarach; chinaberry tree; pride-of-India; azederach; azedarach; China tree; chinaberry
Hypernyms ("Persian lilac" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Holonyms ("Persian lilac" is a member of...):
genus Melia; Melia (type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash)
Meaning:
Small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Syringa persica; Persian lilac
Hypernyms ("Persian lilac" is a kind of...):
lilac (any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers)
