starch hyacinth

English

Etymology

So called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch.

Noun

starch hyacinth (plural starch hyacinths)

1. grape hyacinth (Muscari spp., Pseudomuscari spp., and Leopoldia spp.).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “starch hyacinth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)