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‖ muscari|mʌˈskɛərɪ, -raɪ|
Also 6 muscarie, 7 (?) muscaris, 8 muscaria, 7–8 muscary.
[mod.L. muscari, given by Clusius 1601 as one of the names by which the plant was known at Constantinople.
It would seem therefore to represent a mod.Gr. *µοσκάρι, dim. of µόσκος musk: the flowers have a musk-like odour. Clusius says that another name was muschoromi or muscurimi (? µόσκος ρωµαῖος ‘Roman musk’), and that (in Italy) some called it muschio greco.]
A genus of bulbous plants belonging to the hyacinth tribe of Liliaceæ; a plant of this genus, esp. Muscari botryoides, the grape hyacinth.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. lxxii. §1. 105 Yellow Muscarie hath fiue or sixe long leaues spread vpon the ground. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. June 69 You may now take up all such..Flower-roots..as..Martagon, Muscaris, Dens Caninus, &c. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 66/2 The Muscary or Musk Grape flower. 1721Mortimer Husb. (ed. 5) II. 225 Muscaries or Grape-flowers. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 367 Muscaria's, great Snow-drops, Dwarf-flag. 1894Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 7/2 There were azaleas,..spireas, muscaris, snowflakes, tuberoses [etc.]. |