grape hyacinth

grape hyacinth

n.

Any of various plants of the genus Muscari, native to Eurasia and having narrow leaves and dense terminal racemes of rounded, usually blue flowers.

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grape hyacinth

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various Eurasian liliaceous plants of the genus Muscari, esp M. botryoides, with clusters of rounded blue flowers resembling tiny grapes

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Noun

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grape hyacinth - any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber genus Muscari, Muscari - sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae 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