hyacinthine

[ hahy-uh-sin-thin, -thahyn ]

adjective

1. of or like the hyacinth.
2. adorned with hyacinths.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hyacinthine¹

1650–60; < Latin hyacinthinus < Greek hyakínthinos. See hyacinth, -ine ¹

Example Sentences

By continuance of heat it calcines in white fumes, called argentine flowers of antimony, which melt into a hyacinthine glass.

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The breezy or stormy sea was purple; the sky was purple; the hyacinthine locks of Narcissus, the rosy lips of Venus were purple.

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There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire.

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To the left walks Edwin, with hyacinthine locks, and a thoroughly classical type of face, and Grecian nose.

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His dark-brown hair was short and hyacinthine, close to his white forehead, and naturally showing his small ears.

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