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hyacinthine

/hahy-uh-sin-thin, -thahyn/US // ˌhaɪ əˈsɪn θɪn, -θaɪn //

蕙质兰心,蕙心兰心,蕙心兰质,蕙心兰意

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like the hyacinth.
    • : adorned with hyacinths.

Examples

  • By continuance of heat it calcines in white fumes, called argentine flowers of antimony, which melt into a hyacinthine glass.

  • The breezy or stormy sea was purple; the sky was purple; the hyacinthine locks of Narcissus, the rosy lips of Venus were purple.

  • There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire.

  • To the left walks Edwin, with hyacinthine locks, and a thoroughly classical type of face, and Grecian nose.

  • His dark-brown hair was short and hyacinthine, close to his white forehead, and naturally showing his small ears.