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lilac
lilac is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.
- 2noun
A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.
- 3noun
any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers
- 4adjective
of a pale purple color
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