- 1
A lilac is a small tree with bunches of sweet-smelling flowers in spring. Lilac is also the colour of those flowers — a pale purple with a little pink in it. You can use it as a noun or as a describing word.
紫丁香（花木）；淡紫色
組成The word travelled into English through French and Arabic, from a Persian word for bluish.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lilacname
- 1
A female given name from English.
- "Lilac Kingsmith," I said. "What a neat name."
- As he worked he said conversationally: ‘You’re Lilac Larkin, ain’t you? I reckernise you from your photograph.’
lilacnoun/ˈlaɪlək/
- 1
A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink, or purple flowers.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- 2
A flower of the lilac shrub.
- […] O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, / But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, / Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, / With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, / For you and the coffins all of you O death.
- 3
A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.
- 4
A cat having a lilac-colored (pale brown) coat.
lilacadj/ˈlaɪlək/
- 1
Having a pale purple colour.
- 2
Of a cat or its fur: having a pale brown colour, lighter than chocolate.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。