primrose family

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noun

1. the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.

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primrose family

There were other flowers unfamiliar to me and hundreds of big blossoms of what I took to be a member of the primrose family.

From The Black Wolf Pack by Beard, Daniel Carter

Samolus, sam′ō-lus, n. a genus of herbaceous plants of the primrose family.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Pimpernel, pim′pėr-nel, n. a plant of the primrose family, with reddish flowers—also Poor man's weather-glass, Red chickweed.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Besides the primrose family, many other plants of several distinct natural orders present similar phenomena, one or two of the most curious of which must be referred to.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel