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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Muscari, native to Eurasia and having narrow leaves and dense terminal racemes of rounded, usually blue flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
hyacinth .
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- noun Any of the species of three genera in the Hyacinthinae
subtribe that produce racemes of small blue flowers, Muscari, Pseudomuscari, and Leopoldia.
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- noun any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
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treeseed commented on the word grape hyacinth
any of several small bulbous spring-flowering herbs (genus Muscari) of the lily family with racemes of usually blue flowers
January 24, 2008