pin-eyed

British  

adjective

1. (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma in the mouth of the corolla, on the end of a long style with the stamens lower in the tube Compare thrum-eyed

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Example Sentences

Writing in Nazi-occupied Belgium in 1941, Hergé makes these rivals nasty Americans managed by a venal financier called Bohlwinkel, a bulb-nosed, pin-eyed caricature Jew.

From The Guardian

It had long been known, to take a single example, that primroses existed in two forms, the pin-eyed and the thrum-eyed, of which the former has the pin-like summit of the pistil at the top of the tube, and the stamens concealed half way down its throat; while in the latter these relative positions are exactly reversed, the stamens answering in place to the pistil of the alternative form with geometrical accuracy.

From Project Gutenberg

Ponk and Thelma and fuzzy Teddy, the woman-and-baby, Laura and York, and that pin-eyed gossip—and the young country fellow whose land lay next to hers.

From Project Gutenberg

Like the common primrose, the primula exhibits both pin-eyed and thrum-eyed varieties.

From Project Gutenberg

I can only refer very shortly to the botanical interest of the Primula, and that only to direct attention to Mr. Darwin's paper in the "Journal of the Linnæan Society," 1862, in which he records his very curious and painstaking inquiries into the dimorphism of the Primula, a peculiarity in the Primula that gardeners had long recognized in their arrangement of Primroses as "pin-eyed" and "thrum-eyed."

From Project Gutenberg