Persian lilac
English
Noun
Persian lilac (plural Persian lilacs)
- Syringa × persica, a shrub in the olive family (Oleaceae)
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, pages 285-286:
- 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.
- Melia azedarach, a tree in the mahogany family (Meliaceae)