hyacinthine

[ hahy-uh-sin-thin, -thahyn ]

adjective

1. of or like the hyacinth.
2. adorned with hyacinths.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hyacinthine¹

1650–60; < Latin hyacinthinus < Greek hyakínthinos. See hyacinth, -ine ¹

Example Sentences

Most of the largest sanctuary for the blue Hyacinthine Macaw parrots has gone up in flames this year, Brazil’s Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported.

From Reuters

The German student is particularly partial to hyacinthine locks curling over a black velvet coat; and the peasant of Brittany looks very handsome, if not always clean, with his love-locks hanging straight down under a broad cavalier hat.

From Project Gutenberg

But, when I looked more fixedly, I saw only the valley, carpeted with large blue and white flowers, which emitted a hyacinthine odor.

From Project Gutenberg

A Greek, however, would have regarded this blossom simply with the eyes of a Devonshire farmer, as bearing on the probable price of cider, and would have called it red, cerulean, purple, white, hyacinthine, or generally "aglaos," agreeable, as happened to suit his verse.

From Project Gutenberg

Sultan, sul′tan, n. a Mohammedan sovereign, esp. the supreme head of the Ottoman empire: a purple or hyacinthine gallinule, or porphyrio: a small white variety of the domestic hen:—fem.

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