"Hyacinth" is a word in ENGLISH
A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See
Zircon.
A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also
Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing
beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common
variety.
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.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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