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GRAPE HYACINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grape hyacinth mean? 

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

1. any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapesplay

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


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GRAPE HYACINTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grape hyacinth"):

common grape hyacinth; Muscari neglectum (prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers)

Muscari comosum; tassel hyacinth (large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers)

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

genus Muscari; Muscari (sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)


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