hyacinthine
Americanadjective
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of or like the hyacinth.
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adorned with hyacinths.
Etymology
Origin of hyacinthine
1650–60; < Latin hyacinthinus < Greek hyakínthinos. See hyacinth, -ine 1
Example Sentences
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But, when I looked more fixedly, I saw only the valley, carpeted with large blue and white flowers, which emitted a hyacinthine odor.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
In such an illumination the eyes shone with added luster, flying locks were all hyacinthine, the frocks might have been silks and satins.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice
The base is of solid gold, and around it are set nine gems or charms, a diamond, ruby, sapphire, chrysoberyl cat's-eye, coral, pearl, hyacinthine garnet, yellow sapphire, and emerald.
From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison
By continuance of heat it calcines in white fumes, called argentine flowers of antimony, which melt into a hyacinthine glass.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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