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 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
Cases in point are those of the primula flowers and the Andalusian fowls.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
Among plants such a case has been met with in the primula.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
The present name of my Veronica Stagnarum is however V. anagallis, a mere insult to the little water primula, which one plant of the Veronica would make fifty of.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
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
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