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TASSEL HYACINTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tassel hyacinth mean?
• TASSEL HYACINTH (noun)
The noun TASSEL HYACINTH has 1 sense:
1. large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers
Familiarity information: TASSEL HYACINTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Muscari comosum; tassel hyacinth
Hypernyms ("tassel hyacinth" is a kind of...):
grape hyacinth (any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes)
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