hyacinth : Idioms & Phrases

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cape hyacinth

  • noun southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers
    Galtonia candicans; Hyacinthus candicans; cape hyacinth.
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common grape hyacinth

  • noun prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers
    Muscari neglectum.
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common hyacinth

  • noun widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers
    Hyacinthus orientalis.
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Grape hyacinth

  • noun any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
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  • (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme.
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Hyacinth bean

  • noun perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
    bonavist; Dolichos lablab; Egyptian bean; Lablab purpureus; Indian bean.
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  • (Bot.), a climbing leguminous plant (Dolichos Lablab), related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit.
Webster 1913

Lily hyacinth

  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hyacinthus.
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pine hyacinth

  • noun erect clematis of Florida having pink to purple flowers
    Clematis baldwinii; Viorna baldwinii.
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roman hyacinth

  • noun hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb
    Hyacinthus orientalis albulus.
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Star hyacinth

  • (Bot.), a bulbous plant of the genus Scilla (S. autumnalis); called also star-headed hyacinth.
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Starch hyacinth

  • (Bot.), the grape hyacinth; so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape.
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summer hyacinth

  • noun southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers
    Galtonia candicans; Hyacinthus candicans; cape hyacinth.
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tassel hyacinth

  • noun large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers
    Muscari comosum.
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water hyacinth

  • noun a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States
    Eichhornia spesiosa; water orchid; Eichhornia crassipes.
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Wa"ter hy"a*cinth
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  1. (Bot.) Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
Webster 1913

Wild hyacinth

  • noun sometimes placed in genus Scilla
    bluebell; wild hyacinth; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; harebell.
  • noun eastern camas; eastern and central North America
    indigo squill; Camassia scilloides.
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  • . (Bot.) See Hyacinth, 1 (b).
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wood hyacinth

  • noun sometimes placed in genus Scilla
    bluebell; wild hyacinth; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; harebell.
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