primula
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of primula
1745–55; < Medieval Latin prīmula, short for prīmula vēris, literally, first (flower) of spring. See prime, -ule
Example Sentences
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The little streams that rushed down the hillsides were fringed with maidenhair fern, lighted up here and there with a bunch of pink primula or a tiny cluster of dog violets.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne
And perhaps the most striking primula is P. Elwesiana, with large solitary deflexed purple flowers.
From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
The primula is thus spoken of, on account of its yellow centre, also the adonis, or “pheasant’s eye,” and the blue veronica, or germander speedwell.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
There were flowers everywhere in big bowls—red rambler roses, primula, sweet williams, Shasta daisies, and scarlet poppies.
From Who Cares? a story of adolescence by Cosmo Hamilton
Two delightful varieties of primula were new to me, and were just coming out, one of them being almost black in colour.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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