grape hyacinth
any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
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How to use grape hyacinth in a sentence
The common grape hyacinth sometimes overruns a garden and cannot be got rid of.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude JekyllThe dark blue grape hyacinth stands calm in winds and bitter weather; waist-deep in snow, it proudly holds its ground.
Minstrel Weather | Marian StormThe grape hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden—but no!
Old-Time Gardens | Alice Morse EarleWe found it a field of grape hyacinth, blue of leaf, of stem, of flower.
Old-Time Gardens | Alice Morse EarleWith the dwarfer squills might be associated the grape hyacinth and the amethyst hyacinth (Hyacinthus amethystinus).
The Wild Garden | William Robinson
British Dictionary definitions for grape hyacinth
any of various Eurasian liliaceous plants of the genus Muscari, esp M. botryoides, with clusters of rounded blue flowers resembling tiny grapes
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