WILD HYACINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild hyacinth mean? 

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

1. sometimes placed in genus Scilla

2. eastern camas; eastern and central North America

  Familiarity information: WILD HYACINTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD HYACINTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sometimes placed in genus Scilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; wild hyacinth; wood hyacinth

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

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

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

genus Hyacinthoides; Hyacinthoides (small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eastern camas; eastern and central North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Camassia scilloides; indigo squill; wild hyacinth

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

camas; camash; camass; camosh; quamash (any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America)

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

Camassia; genus Camassia; genus Quamassia; Quamassia (genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs)