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8 plants, trees, botany terms

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8 [botany] words
sorrel
primrose
gorse
syringa
crocus
Bougainvillea
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syringa

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Definition:
a genus of fragrant flowering plants, more specifically the lilac family

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with the softness of the perfume of the syringas, and threw across their memories shadows more immense and more sombre than those of the still willows

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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