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nounhyacine (plural hyacines)
plural hyacines
- obsoleteA hyacinth.
And in the hyacine A deeper blue is met.
a. 1877, William Stokes, “Ark Mariner's Song”1 more example
Some [wines] deepe empurpled as the Hyacine, Some as the Rubine laughing sweetely red
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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