tassel hyacinth

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   large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers

   SynonymsMuscari comosum

   Broadergrape hyacinth

Questions about tassel hyacinth

What does tassel hyacinth mean?

tassel hyacinth means "large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers".

What is another word for tassel hyacinth?

Close synonyms include Muscari comosum. 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 tassel hyacinth a common word?

tassel 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.