crape myrtle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A deciduous shrub (Lagerstroemia indica) native to China and widely cultivated in warm regions for its showy clusters of variously colored flowers with crinkled petals.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A shrub, Lagerstræmia Indica. Also called Indian lilac. See lilac and Lagerstræmia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun an tall East Indian and Chinese shrub (Lagerstroemia indica of the loosestrife family, commonly planted in Southern and Western U. S. as an ornamental shrub. It has clusters of red, white, purple, or pink flowers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of the genus Lagerstroemia, family Lythraceae, shrubs or small trees, certain of which are ornamental, bearing big gaudy blooms.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun ornamental shrub from eastern India commonly planted in the southern United States