grape hyacinth


noun
  1. any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.

Origin of grape hyacinth

1
First recorded in 1725–35

Words Nearby grape hyacinth

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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
  1. 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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