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grape hyacinth

grape hyacinth noun: any of the species of three genera in the Hyacinthinae subtribe (family Asparagaceae) that produce racemes of small blue flowers, Muscari, Pseudomuscari, and Leopoldia.

grape hyacinth: any of the species of three genera in the Hyacinthinae subtribe (family Asparagaceae) that produce...
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Noun

grape hyacinth (plural grape hyacinths)

  1. Any of the species of three genera in the Hyacinthinae subtribe (family Asparagaceae) that produce racemes of small blue flowers, Muscari, Pseudomuscari, and Leopoldia.
    • […]while the wood hyacinth, or grape hyacinth, at its best, cannot match even the dark bell-gentian, […]1856, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), § 5, page 356
    • Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the gean rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12

Forms of grape hyacinth

pluralgrape hyacinths

Questions about grape hyacinth

What does grape hyacinth mean?
Grape hyacinth means any of the species of three genera in the Hyacinthinae subtribe (family Asparagaceae) that produce racemes of small blue flowers, Muscari, Pseudomuscari, and Leopoldia.
What part of speech is grape hyacinth?
Grape hyacinth is a noun.
What is the plural of grape hyacinth?
The plural of grape hyacinth is grape hyacinths.

Words near grape hyacinth in the dictionary

  1. grape cactus
  2. grape cell
  3. grape cells
  4. grape fern
  5. grape ferns
  6. grape hyacinth
  7. grape hyacinths
  8. grape ivy
  9. grape jelly
  10. grape juice
  11. grape juices

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