HYACINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyacinth mean? 

• HYACINTH (noun)
  The noun HYACINTH has 2 senses:

1. a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone

2. any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs

  Familiarity information: HYACINTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYACINTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

hyacinth; jacinth

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

zircon; zirconium silicate (a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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 "hyacinth"):

common hyacinth; Hyacinthus orientalis (widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers)

Hyacinthus orientalis albulus; Roman hyacinth (hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb)

cape hyacinth; Galtonia candicans; Hyacinthus candicans; summer hyacinth (southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers)

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

genus Hyacinthus (sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae as the type genus)

 Context examples 

At any rate, however, I am pleased that you have learnt to love a hyacinth.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He looked sober in spite of his humming, till he went to the window to turn the hyacinth bulbs toward the sun, and stroke the cat, who received him like an old friend.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And though the love of a hyacinth may be rather domestic, who can tell, the sentiment once raised, but you may in time come to love a rose?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But now you love a hyacinth.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I have just learnt to love a hyacinth.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

What beautiful hyacinths!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)