Hyacinth

hī′a-sinth, n. a bulbous-rooted flower of a great variety of colours: ( myth. ) a flower which sprang from the blood of Hyacinth us, a youth killed by Apollo with a quoit: a precious stone, the jacinth.— adj. Hyacin′thine , consisting of or resembling hyacinth: very beautiful, like Hyacinth us: curling like the hyacinth. [Doublet of jacinth .]