serynga

English

Etymology

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Noun

serynga (plural seryngas)

1. Sweet mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius).
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 185:

     The air was soft and warm, and fraught with that peculiar sweetness which tells that the serynga (our English orange-flower) has expanded, and that the lilacs are in full blossom.

2. hence, any of several flowering plants of the genus Philadelphus.