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US
/ˈhaɪəˌsɪnθ/
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[ UK /hˈaɪɐsˌɪnθ/ ]
[ UK /hˈaɪɐsˌɪnθ/ ]
NOUN
- a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone
- any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs
How To Use hyacinth In A Sentence
- Fall is the time to plant the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths that bloom in the spring.
- Strangely, having run his fastest to get to her, Hyacinth seemed almost reluctant to knock at the door, or enter without knocking, and while he was hesitating on the doorstone her singing ceased, and she came out to see whose fleet footsteps had stirred the small stones of the pathway. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
- People often wonder what to do when tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, Easter lilies, and other spring-blooming bulb flowers have faded.
- He placed the azoth on his bureau, put Hyacinth's needler and his beads beside it, and removed his trousers. Calde of the Long Sun
- Children look for the Little People in mauve flowers – Canterbury bells and hyacinths – and, though they never find them, they know them there. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
- The pink tulips have opened along with the white candytuft and the blue grape hyacinths are still hanging on. Home Sweet Home « Fairegarden
- The bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing.
- She became conscious that the long grass was drenched and her shoes and stockings wet through; there was light enough to see in that grass the stars of jonquil, grape hyacinth and the pale cast-out tulips; there would be polyanthus, too, bluebells and cowslips — a few. Flowering Wilderness
- Katerina's eyes had been a deep hyacinth blue, but even in the dim light of the theatre, he could see that Caroline's were grey-blue. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- There was a heated dispute between the merit water hyacinth on purification or pollution in water - bodies.