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Definition of Common lilac
1. Noun. Large European lilac naturalized in North America having heart-shaped ovate leaves and large panicles of highly fragrant lilac or white flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Lilac
Literary usage of Common lilac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... these plants, except the first, being quite young, we have only seen them in
leaf. Description, %c. The common lilac grows to the height of 20ft. and ..."
2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"As to grafting, though the common Lilac is far better than the fatal and ugly
... Though some of the old varieties were beautiful—even the common Lilac when ..."
3. Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"common lilac, Syringa vulgaris.% (The name syringa is commonly mis applied to
the species of Philadelphia*.) The standard spring-blooming shrub in the North ..."
4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"As to grafting, ' though the common Lilac is far better j than the fatal and ...
Though some of ' the old varieties were beautiful—even the common Lilac ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"Liac js a Persian word signifying flower. Le lilas. Fr.; Die Strene, Ger.; and
Syringa, hal. The common lilac seems to have been introduced ..."
6. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"Although the common Lilac is not a native of Britain, it has for over 300 years
... However this may be, the common Lilac reached ' Western Europe about the ..."
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