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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 flowers
Familiarity information: COMMON HYACINTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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