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wood hyacinth

wood hyacinth

noun

  1. another name for bluebell
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wood hyacinth1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

The foliage resembles that of the wood hyacinth, but it is more rigid, not so broad, and slightly glaucous.

It very much resembles the English hyacinth—H. nutans, or Scilla non-scripta—better known as the wood hyacinth.

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