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GRAPE HYACINTH

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("grape hyacinth" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grape hyacinth"):

common grape hyacinth; Muscari neglectum (prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers)

Muscari comosum; tassel hyacinth (large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers)

Holonyms ("grape hyacinth" is a member of...):

genus Muscari; Muscari (sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)

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