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Common hyacinth   /kˈɑmən hˈaɪəsˌɪnθ/   Listen
Common hyacinth

noun
1.
Widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers.  Synonym: Hyacinthus orientalis.






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"Common hyacinth" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the lotus (so common in Hindustan,) all these flowers, thus celebrated by the greatest of Grecian poets, and represented as fit luxuries for the gods, are at the command of the poorest peasant in England. The common Hyacinth is known to the unlearned as the Harebell, so called from the bell shape of its flowers and from its growing so abundantly in thickets frequented by hares. Shakespeare, as we have seen, ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson



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