Definitions for hyacinthine

hyacinthine hy·a·cin·thine

Spelling: [hahy-uh-sin-thin, -thahyn]
IPA: /ˌhaɪ əˈsɪn θɪn, -θaɪn/

Hyacinthine is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in hyacinthine (acehhiinnty).

Definitions for hyacinthine

adjective

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

Origin of hyacinthine

1650-60; Latin hyacinthinus Greek hyakínthinos. See hyacinth, -ine1

Examples for hyacinthine

As for the hyacinthine purple cloak, I wear it because I like it.

Dark eyes are dearer far Than those that make the hyacinthine bell.

The nest of the hyacinthine Gallinule is made on the sedge-patches which dot the marshes, much like that of the coot.

The breezy or stormy sea was purple; the sky was purple; the hyacinthine locks of Narcissus, the rosy lips of Venus were purple.

The hyacinthine macaw (the Araruna of the natives) is one of the finest and rarest species of the parrot family.

Thou art like the hyacinthine flower, wont to stand aloft 'midst varied riches of its lordling's garden.

By continuance of heat it calcines in white fumes, called argentine flowers of antimony, which melt into a hyacinthine glass.

The hyacinthine curl of her lengthening locks had added something to her beauty; but it was the same face which had haunted him.

On his head he wore a petasus of hyacinthine hue, out of which sprang three peacock's feathers.

There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire.

Word Value for hyacinthine
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