hyacinth


Definition: Meaning of, hyacinth in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈhʌɪəsɪnθ /

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hyacinth hyacinths
[countable]
  1. a garden plant with blue, pink, or white bell-shaped flowers and a sweet smell
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hyacinth used in phrases

  • Roman hyacinth (noun)
    1. hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb
  • cape hyacinth (noun)
    1. southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers
  • common grape hyacinth (noun)
    1. prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers
  • common hyacinth (noun)
    1. widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers
  • grape hyacinth (noun)
    1. any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
  • hyacinth bean (noun)
    1. 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
  • pine hyacinth (noun)
    1. erect clematis of Florida having pink to purple flowers
  • summer hyacinth (noun)
    1. southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers
  • tassel hyacinth (noun)
    1. large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers
  • water hyacinth (noun)
    1. a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States
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