'Grape hyacinth' definitions:
Definition of 'grape hyacinth'
From: WordNet
noun
Any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
Definition of 'Grape hyacinth'
From: GCIDE
- Grape \Grape\, n. [OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple.]
- 1. (Bot.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mil.) Grapeshot. [1913 Webster]
- Grape borer. (Zool.) See Vine borer.
- Grape curculio (Zool.), a minute black weevil ({Craponius in[ae]qualis}) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes.
- Grape flower, or
- Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Muscari racemosum}) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme.
- Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew.
- Grape hopper (Zool.), a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.
- Grape moth (Zool.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk.
- Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech.
- Grape sugar. See Glucose.
- Grape worm (Zool.), the larva of the grape moth.
- Sour grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to [AE]sop's fable of the fox and the grapes. [1913 Webster]