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What does Hyacinthus mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Hyacinthus? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) A Spartan youth loved and accidentally killed by Apollo. The flower hyacinth sprang from his blood.
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She thought of Hyacinthus as she might have thought of a divinity.
The precise relation which Apollo bears to Hyacinthus is obscure.
The myth is akin to those of Linus, Hyacinthus, and Narcissus.
This mythical flower, which was almost certainly not the modern hyacinth, sprang up from the blood of the dying prince Hyacinthus.
Zephyrus hated Hyacinthus because he scorned him, and preferred his corrival Apollo.
Nor was it Apollo alone who desired the friendship of Hyacinthus.

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