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COMMON HYACINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common hyacinth mean? 

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

1. widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


COMMON HYACINTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common hyacinth; Hyacinthus orientalis

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

hyacinth (any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs)


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