Hyacinthus

[hahy-uh-sin-thuh s]

noun Classical Mythology.

a youth loved but accidentally killed by Apollo: from the youth's blood sprang the hyacinth.

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Historical Examples of hyacinthus

She thought of Hyacinthus as she might have thought of a divinity.
Quaint Courtships
Various
Nor was it Apollo alone who desired the friendship of Hyacinthus.
A Book of Myths
Jean Lang
So does Hyacinthus live on; so do Apollo and Zephyrus still love and mourn their friend.
A Book of Myths
Jean Lang
The precise relation which Apollo bears to Hyacinthus is obscure.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1
Various
The myth is akin to those of Linus, Hyacinthus, and Narcissus.
The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)
Charles Mills Gayley

British Dictionary definitions for hyacinthus

Hyacinthus

noun

Greek myth a youth beloved of Apollo and inadvertently killed by him. At the spot where the youth died, Apollo caused a flower to grow

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