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Any of a group of bulb-producing plants belonging to the lily family, native to the eastern Mediterranean and Africa. The cultivated hyacinth (H. orientalis) has large, scented, cylindrical heads of pink, white, or blue flowers. (Genus Hyacinthus, family Liliaceae.)

The water hyacinth, a floating plant from South America, is unrelated.

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