What's the difference between hyacine and hyacinth?
Hyacine
Definition:
(n.) A hyacinth.
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Hyacinth
Definition:
(n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
(n.) A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
(n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.
(n.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hyacinth Bucket finagling her way into the company of mass murderers."
(2) It’s unfortunate, but you have to destroy some areas to save the city Victor Coenen Ahok deployed squadrons of workers to clean the rivers of their choking surface carpets of rubbish and water hyacinths.
(3) Anyone caught exporting or possessing invasive species such as grey squirrels, ruddy ducks and water hyacinth in the EU will soon face heavy fines and confiscations, under a new blacklist filed at the WTO, which the Guardian has seen.
(4) Diagnosis of Escherichia coli septicemia and enteritis in a hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) was based on lesions such as generalized hyperemia and hemorrhages in visceral organs, fibrinonecrotic lesions in the intestine, and isolation of E coli in pure culture from the heart blood, liver, and intestine.
(5) Both species are most abundant in the presence of aquatic vegetation, but they differ in their respective associations with the water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes.
(6) Dermatophilosis was diagnosed in the area of Saint-Hyacinthe in October 1978.
(7) Birch twig and marguerite most frequently induced symptoms, followed by strongly smelling flowers such as hyacinth, lilac, and lily of the valley.
(8) Sam-samping had 4.79% total oligosaccharides and hyacinth bean or batao, 3.66%.
(9) René Théophile Hyacinthe Lënnec is famous chiefly for the invention of the stethoscope.
(10) The effect of electroplating factory effluent in different concentrations (viz., 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0%) on the germination and growth of hyacinth beans (Dolichos lablab) and mustard seeds (Brassica compestris) was studied.
(11) The aquatic weed--water hyacinth [Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms] showed a remarkable capacity to withstand the effects of pH changes ranging from 5 to 8 in the aquatic environment.
(12) The water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) may be used as a sensitive biological indicator for continuously monitoring trace quantities of toxic heavy metals in aquatic systems.
(13) The metal content in the hyacinth bean plants increased with increasing effluent concentration but after 1.0% effluent concentration, the concentration of all the metals (Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cu, Zn, Fe) decreased in the plants except Cr, which increased throughout.
(14) But someone who lives or works here has put a couple of drooping geraniums on a first-floor windowsill, a touchingly modest, personal attempt at home-making, more human in scale than all the tulips, hyacinths and pansies planted in vast quantities in the gardens along the road, which have been landscaped into luxury-hotel-style anonymity.
(15) It is a sandy patch of land surrounded by water in which bare-chested boys in dugout canoes paddle among the hyacinths.
(16) A total of 30 isolates of Treponema hyodysenteriae collected in the Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec, Canada) area were serotyped by agar gel double immunodiffusion by using extracted lipopolysaccharide and hyperimmune rabbit antisera.
(17) Harvested hyacinths represent a useful product which could be converted into compost, or used directly as a soil amendment.
(18) "It's disgusting," said Hyacinth Rattray, who featured in episode two in a subplot that followed the street's unsuccessful attempt to win a prize in the Britain in Bloom competition.
(19) Stabilization ponds followed by hyacinth culture constitute an economical, low energy treatment system which reduces significantly those potential health hazards associated with wastewaters.
(20) For example, gay culture holds a special place for those who put on an extravagantly brave front (think Hyacinth Bucket); or for those who maintain strength against the odds, or who face rejection or adversity (or their own demons) with style.