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noun • genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs • large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes | ||||||||
| 36% | 6 | From Greek for “Pan-pipes”, the song-making organ of any one of the “orniths” described in 16 Across | ||||||
noun • a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together • the vocal organ of a bird | ||||||||
| 35% | 5 | Thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon for “fire” due to its hollow stems used to blow air on embers, the tree Sambucus, with berries/flowers used for cordial, jam, pressé and wine | ||||||
noun • a person who is older than you are • any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit • any of various church officers adjective satellite • used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | ||||||||
From The Greek For Pan Pipes A Genus Of Lilacs With Stems Once Used As Shepherds Pipes Crossword Clue
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SYRINGA which was last seen in the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword.
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SYRINGA
Updated: October 12, 2023
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