Hyacinthine

Hyacinthine: the purple blue of the hyacinth [between mauve and lilac].

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

In every instance, these mournful strains were the annual lamentation of the people over the death of some mythical boy of extraordinary beauty and promise, who, in the flower of youth, was suddenly drowned, or torn in pieces by wild beasts, "Some Hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom."

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

The Hyacinthine macaw (the Araruna of the natives) is one of the finest and rarest species of the parrot family.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853

[Gulnár (the heroine of the _Corsair_ is named Gulnare) is Persian for a pomegranate flower.] [90] Hyacinthine, in Arabic "Sunbul;" as common a thought in the Eastern poets as it was among the Greeks.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

That wanton with the laughing summer-air; "and refers Milton's" Hyacinthine locks "(_Paradise Lost_, iv. 301) to

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806