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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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 Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
On the top were many interesting Alpine flowers, amongst them a charming white potentilla with a red centre; and a large cream-coloured primula, shading into deep orange.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
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.
A very beautiful blue primula was just beginning to come out.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
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 Hamilton, Cosmo
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