Persian lilac

English Noun Syringa × persica, a shrub in the olive family (Oleaceae family). 285–286 III 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 species, a tree in the mahogany family (Meliaceae family). en Olive family plants Sapindales order plants