wild hyacinth

American  

noun

1. any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.

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wild hyacinth British  

noun

1. another name for bluebell

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Etymology

Origin of wild hyacinth

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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wild hyacinth

A premiere destination for wildflower viewing, Chino Hills State Park is host to wild hyacinth, poppies, Canterbury bells and redmaids through May.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

In the wild, hyacinth macaws break open nuts with leaves and sticks, and black palm cockatoos drum on trees with rocks and empty nut shells.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2015

She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Athena lent a hand, making him seem taller, and massive too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth, but all red-golden.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Of the wild hyacinth he writes: “The boyes in Northūberland scrape the roote of the herbe and glew theyr arrowes and bokes wyth that slyme that they scrape of.”

From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

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