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  2. Dipodium atropurpureum - Wikipedia

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    Dipodium atropurpureum, commonly known as the purple hyacinth orchid, is a mostly leafless mycoheterotrophic orchid that is endemic to New South Wales. In summer it has up to forty dark pinkish purple to reddish purple flowers with darker spots and blotches on a tall flowering stem.

  3. Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

  4. Dipodium - Wikipedia

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    Dipodium, commonly known as hyacinth orchids, [3] is a genus of about forty species of orchids native to tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of south-east Asia, New Guinea, the Pacific Islands and Australia.

  5. Camassia - Wikipedia

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    Common names include camas, quamash, Indian hyacinth, camash, and wild hyacinth. [citation needed] It grows in the wild in great numbers in moist meadows. They are perennial plants with basal linear leaves measuring 20 to 80 centimetres (8 to 32 in) in length, which emerge early in the spring. They grow to a height of 30 to 130 cm (12 to 50 in ...

  6. Hyacinth - Wikipedia

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    The colour of the blue flower hyacinth plant varies between 'mid-blue', [21] violet blue and bluish purple. Within this range can be found Persenche, which is an American color name (probably from French), for a hyacinth hue. [22] The colour analysis of Persenche is 73% ultramarine, 9% red and 18% white. [23]

  7. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.

  8. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from charpoy चारपाई,چارپائی Teen payi (तीन पाय) in Hindi-Urdu, meaning "three legged" or "coffee table". [26] Thug from Thagi ठग,ٹھگ Thag in Hindi-Urdu, meaning "thief or con man". [27] Tickety-boo possibly from Hindi ठीक है, बाबू (ṭhīk hai, bābū), meaning "it's all right, sir". [28]

  9. Tekhelet - Wikipedia

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    The colour of the hyacinth flower ranges from violet blue to a bluish purple (though the hyacinth species dominant in the eastern Mediterranean, Hyacinthus orientalis, is violet [25]), and the word hyakinthos was used to describe both blue and purple colours. [25] Early rabbinic sources provide indications as to the nature of the colour.