grape hyacinth

/greɪp ˌhaɪəˈsɪnθ/

Other forms: grape hyacinths

Definitions of grape hyacinth

1. noun

   any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
   types:

   Muscari neglectum, common grape hyacinth

   prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers

   Muscari comosum, tassel hyacinth

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

   type of:

   liliaceous plant

   plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber