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Definition of Tassel hyacinth
1. Noun. Large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tassel Hyacinth
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Literary usage of Tassel hyacinth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted Plants: Their History, Description, Methods of by Charles Linnaeus Allen (1893)
"tassel hyacinth.—See Muscari comosum. White Cape Hyacinth.—See Galtonia candicans,
Page 97. Wild American Hyacinth.—See Camassia escu- lenta, and C. Fraseri ..."
2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"The flowers are blue, purple, white, or ash-coloured, and have an agreeable scent.
The Purple Grape Hyacinth is called Tassel-Hyacinth. ..."
3. Flower Gardening by Henry Sherman Adams (1913)
"The fragrant musk hyacinth is M. moschatum majus, the tassel hyacinth M.
comosum and the plume or ostrich feather hyacinth M. plumosum. ..."
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