HYACINTH
\hˈa͡ɪɐsˌɪnθ], \hˈaɪɐsˌɪnθ], \h_ˈaɪ__ɐ_s_ˌɪ_n_θ]\
Definitions of HYACINTH
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
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A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
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The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.
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A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
By Oddity Software
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A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
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A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
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A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
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The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; - called also, from a mistake as to its origin, of Peru.
By Noah Webster.
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A well-known plant of the lily family with stalks of bell-shaped flowers; also, one of its bulbs or flowers.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(myth.) A flower which sprang from the blood of Hyakinthos, a youth killed by Apollo with a quoit: a bulbous-rooted flower of a great variety of colors: a precious stone, the jacinth.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A beautiful bulbous-rooted flowering plant of many varieties; a brilliantly coloured variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
