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Hyacinthoides

Hyacinthoides

9.9
Group of flowering bulb plants like bluebells that grow every year
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : Hyacinthoides
  • The woodland was carpeted with blooming Hyacinthoides during the spring.

Examples

  • I planted Hyacinthoides bulbs last autumn.

  • Botanists recently reclassified several species under the genus Hyacinthoides.

  • Hyacinthoides is sometimes confused with members of the Hyacinthaceae family.

  • The Hyacinthoides flowers bloom beautifully in spring.

  • The woodland was carpeted with blooming Hyacinthoides during the spring.

  • The Hyacinthoides flowers bloom beautifully in spring.

  • I planted Hyacinthoides bulbs last autumn.

Synonyms

genus Hyacinthoides
vsHyacinthoides
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of bulb plants with bluebell flowers from western Europe and North Africa

includes the familiar common name to connect scientific and everyday usage

Compounds

genus Hyacinthoides
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of bulb plants with bluebell flowers from western Europe and North Africa

Hyacinthoides nonscripta
  • Specialized
9.6

A wild plant with blue, bell-shaped flowers that grows in woods in Western Europe

Surface Forms

Hyacinthoides singular
Hyacinthoideses plural
Hyacinthoides plural

Morphology

Hyacinthoides = hyacinth (semi-transparent) = hyacinth + oides

The element 'hyacinth' is recognizable, but the combining form '-oides' is a specialized taxonomic suffix not familiar to most learners, so the precise meaning ('resembling hyacinth') is only partly inferable.

Etymology

Hyacinthoides comes from the flower name hyacinth and the ending -oides, which means 'like' or 'resembling'. So Hyacinthoides is a name for plants that are 'like a hyacinth' — bulb plants that often look like bluebells.