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WILD HYACINTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eastern camas; eastern and central North America
Synonyms:
Camassia scilloides; indigo squill; wild hyacinth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild hyacinth" is a kind of...):
camas; camash; camass; camosh; quamash (any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America)
Holonyms ("wild hyacinth" is a member of...):
Camassia; genus Camassia; genus Quamassia; Quamassia (genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sometimes placed in genus Scilla
Synonyms:
bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; wild hyacinth; wood hyacinth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("wild hyacinth" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Holonyms ("wild hyacinth" is a member of...):
genus Hyacinthoides; Hyacinthoides (small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)
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