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hyacine

hyacine noun: a hyacinth.

Noun

hyacine (plural hyacines)

  1. (obsolete) A hyacinth.
    • Some [wines] deepe empurpled as the Hyacine,
      Some as the Rubine laughing sweetely red1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • And in the hyacine
      A deeper blue is met.a. 1877, William Stokes, “Ark Mariner's Song”

Forms of hyacine

pluralhyacines

Questions about hyacine

What does hyacine mean?
Hyacine means a hyacinth.
What part of speech is hyacine?
Hyacine is a noun.
What is the plural of hyacine?
The plural of hyacine is hyacines.

Words near hyacine in the dictionary

  1. HXTs
  2. Hy
  3. HY"D
  4. hy-spy
  5. hyaa
  6. hyacine
  7. hyacines
  8. hyacinth
  9. hyacinth bean
  10. hyacinth beans
  11. hyacinth macaw

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