baby primrose

noun

a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Myanmar (Burma), having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.

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Madam Wetherill was cut to the very heart by the sad incident, for she loved Bessy as if she had been her own daughter, and she was tenderly attached to baby Primrose, who was too little to realize all she had lost.