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WOOD HYACINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood hyacinth mean? 

WOOD HYACINTH (noun)
  The noun WOOD HYACINTH has 1 sense:

1. sometimes placed in genus Scillaplay

  Familiarity information: WOOD HYACINTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WOOD HYACINTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sometimes placed in genus Scilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; wild hyacinth; wood hyacinth

Hypernyms ("wood hyacinth" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Holonyms ("wood hyacinth" is a member of...):

genus Hyacinthoides; Hyacinthoides (small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)


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