hyacinth
Speech parts
1. hyacinth - Noun
2. Hyacinth - Proper noun
Meaning
A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
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.
A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
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Examples
down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms.
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, "you know I love you dearly-” "Why is it,” Violet pondered, "that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?
After, Hyacinth is reunited with her nephew Geordi.
Bishop of the Catholic Diocese, Bomadi, Delta state, Most Rev. Hyacinth Egbebo, categorically stated: “I do not subscribe to the idea of scrapping the NDDC and I do not know the people suggesting it.”