- French Lilac
French Lilac can mean one of two plants:
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Syringa vulgaris " of the family Oleaceae
*"Galega officinalis ", or Goats Rue, of the family Papilionaceae
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lilac — [17] Like the river Nile, the lilac gets its name from its colour. The Sanskrit word for ‘dark blue’ was nīla. This passed into Persian as nīl, from which was derived nīlak ‘bluish’. This developed a variant līlak, which English acquired via… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
lilac — [17] Like the river Nile, the lilac gets its name from its colour. The Sanskrit word for ‘dark blue’ was nīla. This passed into Persian as nīl, from which was derived nīlak ‘bluish’. This developed a variant līlak, which English acquired via… … Word origins
Lilac — f English: a modern adoption of the vocabulary word denoting the shrub with large sprays of heavily scented purple or white flowers. The word is from French, which derived it via Spanish from Arabic līlak, from Persian nīlak bluish, a derivative… … First names dictionary
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lilac — /ˈlaɪlək / (say luyluhk) noun 1. any of the shrubs constituting the genus Syringa, as S. vulgaris, the common garden lilac, with large clusters of fragrant purple or white flowers. 2. pale reddish purple. 3. the scent of lilac, especially in… …
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Lilac-tailed Parrotlet — Taxobox name = Lilac tailed Parrotlet status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Psittaciformes familia = Psittacidae genus = Touit species = T. batavicus binomial = Touit batavicus binomial… … Wikipedia
lilac — li|lac [ˈlaılək] n [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Early French, from Arabic lilak, from Persian nilak bluish , from nil blue ] 1.) a small tree with pale purple or white flowers 2.) [U] a pale purple colour = ↑mauve … Dictionary of contemporary English
lilac — noun Etymology: obsolete French (now lilas), from Arabic līlak, from Persian nīlak bluish, from nīl blue, from Sanskrit nīla dark blue Date: 1625 1. a. a widely cultivated European shrub (Syringa vulgaris) of the olive family that has cordate… … New Collegiate Dictionary
