common hyacinth

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   widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers

   SynonymsHyacinthus orientalis

   Broaderhyacinth

Questions about common hyacinth

What does common hyacinth mean?

common hyacinth means "widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers".

What is another word for common hyacinth?

Close synonyms include Hyacinthus orientalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common hyacinth a common word?

common hyacinth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.