grape hyacinth

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noun

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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Origin of grape hyacinth

First recorded in 1725–35

Words nearby grape hyacinth

grape, grape family, grape fern, grapefruit, grapefruit league, grape hyacinth, grape ivy, grapeline, grapery, grapes, grapeshot

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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 Jekyll
The dark blue grape hyacinth stands calm in winds and bitter weather; waist-deep in snow, it proudly holds its ground.
Minstrel Weather|Marian Storm
The Grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden—but no!
Old-Time Gardens|Alice Morse Earle
We found it a field of Grape Hyacinth, blue of leaf, of stem, of flower.
Old-Time Gardens|Alice Morse Earle

With 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

grape hyacinth

noun

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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