thrum-eyed

adjective

1. (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma on a short style below the anthers, which lie in the mouth of the corolla on big stamens Compare pin-eyed

Word History and Origins

Origin of thrum-eyed¹

C19: from thrum ², because of the ring of anthers visible at the neck of the corolla

Example Sentences

Like the common primrose, the primula exhibits both pin-eyed and thrum-eyed varieties.

From Project Gutenberg

The former occur in the so-called thrum-eyed primroses (fig. 61), the latter in the “pin-eyed.”

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They have been long known to children and gardeners, who call them thrum-eyed and pin-eyed.

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