primula
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of primula
1745–55; < Medieval Latin prīmula, short for prīmula vēris, literally, first (flower) of spring. See prime, -ule
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A very beautiful blue primula was just beginning to come out.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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
On our left the mountain rose bare and steep, fringed with a few straggling bushes, and here and there a clinging patch of rose-coloured primula.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne
Formerly a species of primula was known as "lady's candlestick," and a Wiltshire nickname for the common convolvulus is "lady's nightcap," Canterbury bells in some places supplying this need.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
On the way I managed to collect for Wollaston a number of the seeds of that lovely blue primula which I had found in flower here in August.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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