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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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 Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir
Another tore at the grass with futile fingers through which a delicate pink primula was now blossoming.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
A very beautiful blue primula was just beginning to come out.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
Among plants such a case has been met with in the primula.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall
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 Swinburne, T. R.
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