hyacinthus orientalis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscommon hyacinth

   Broaderhyacinth

Questions about hyacinthus orientalis

What does hyacinthus orientalis mean?

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

What is another word for hyacinthus orientalis?

Close synonyms include common hyacinth. 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 hyacinthus orientalis a common word?

hyacinthus orientalis 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.