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GRAPE HYACINTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grape hyacinth" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grape hyacinth"):
common grape hyacinth; Muscari neglectum (prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers)
Muscari comosum; tassel hyacinth (large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers)
Holonyms ("grape hyacinth" is a member of...):
genus Muscari; Muscari (sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)
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