Anagrams of: HYACINTHACEAE

• a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone

• any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs

• the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other

• having concealed difficulty

• likely to attract attention

• small genus of North American coarse perennial herbs

• of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk

• subject to accident or chance or change

• bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

• long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game

• a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors