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Definition of Muscari
1. Noun. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Liliaceae, Liliaceae, Lily Family
Member holonyms: Grape Hyacinth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscari
Literary usage of Muscari
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Description of Muscari comosum, the Grape Hyacinth. The bulb Plate 276. an(j
normal form of the flowers are shown at A. B is the var. ..."
2. Bulb Gardening by Mary Hampden (1922)
"... Muscari, ETC. ' See ! yon anemones their leaves unfold, With rubies flaming,
and with living gold. ..."
3. Popular Flowers, and how to Cultivate Them by Edward Sprague Rand (1876)
"... will wonder at our preference. The bulbs of the spring-blooming kinds may be
imported for about fifty cents per dozen. THE Muscari. Natural Order. ..."
4. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1844)
"Verbascum pulverulentum and Salvia pratensis become now exceedingly common.
Muscari como- sum is also abundant, but M. racemosum seems to be already over. ..."
5. Seventy-five Popular Flowers, and how to Cultivate Them by Edward Sprague Rand (1870)
"... will wonder at our preference. The bulbs of the spring-blooming kinds may be
imported for about fifty cents per dozen. THE Muscari. Natural Order. ..."
6. Wild flowers worth notice by Phebe Lankester (1879)
"Muscari RACEMOSUM. THE Grape Hyacinth belongs to the order Liliaceae, but may be
easily distinguished from our common Hyacinth, although belonging to the ..."
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