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    WILD HYACINTH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Eastern camas; eastern and central North Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    Camassia scilloides; indigo squill; wild hyacinth

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    camas; camash; camass; camosh; quamash (any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America)

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

    Camassia; genus Camassia; genus Quamassia; Quamassia (genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Sometimes placed in genus Scillaplay

    Synonyms:

    bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; wild hyacinth; wood hyacinth

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

    genus Hyacinthoides; Hyacinthoides (small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)

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