polyanthus

American  

[pol-ee-an-thuhs] / ˌpɒl iˈæn θəs /

noun

• polyanthuses
  plural

1. a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.

2. Also called polyanthus narcissus. a narcissus, Narcissus tazetta, having small white or yellow flowers.

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polyanthus British  

/ ˌpɒlɪˈænθəs /

noun

1. any of several hybrid garden primroses, esp Primula polyantha, which has brightly coloured flowers

2. a Eurasian amaryllidaceous plant, Narcissus tazetta, having clusters of small yellow or white fragrant flowers

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• polyanthuses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of polyanthus

1620–30; < New Latin < Greek polýanthos having many flowers. See poly-, -anthous

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Example Sentences

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polyanthus polyanthuses

As to my private cabinet, let it be colored light blue, with a border of ranunculus and polyanthus.

From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

And the little bushes of polyanthus gemmed the dark earth between with their varied hues.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

Daffodils peeped out their yellow faces from tufts of encumbering weeds; and stooping down, Rotha found an abundance of polyanthus scattered about among the other things, and periwinkle running wild.

From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

Hyacinths, narcissus, wallflowers, polyanthus, they continued to be held up for her inspection.

From Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow

He professed to disbelieve in the time-honoured prescription, "Plant a primrose upside down, and it will come up a polyanthus," and refused to help me to make the experiment.

From Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Such spring-flowering perennials as the white arabis, herbaceous candytufts, aubretias, primulas, and polyanthuses, should now be placed in situations where it is desired for them to flower.

From Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

The crocuses were all asleep now, their little petals fast closed, and the daisies too, but the polyanthuses looked bravely with their beautiful eyes at the fast darkening sky.

From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

Scrolls, ciphers, dragons, Cupids, polyanthuses, and other flowers writhe up the walls in every kind of cornucopiosity.

From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

Ah," said she, as I presented it to her, "there is no great variety in these polyanthuses.

From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

Before the cottage was a little garden surrounded by a sturdy railing and a thick-set, close-clipped holly-hedge, within the shelter of which whole beds of crocuses and daisies and polyanthuses bloomed gaily.

From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

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