Word Meanings - HYACINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hyacinth. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to HYACINE)

• HYACINTHIAN
  Hyacinthine.
• HYACINTH
  A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon. Hyacinth bean , a climbing leguminous plant , related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit. (more info) gladiolus, or larkspur, also a kind of gem, perh.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• HYACINTHINE
  Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth. Milton. His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper. The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• WOOD HYACINTH
  A European squill having a scape bearing a raceme of drooping blue, purple, white, or sometimes pink, bell- shaped flowers.
• WATER HYACINTH
  Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.