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primrose

[ US /ˈpɹɪmˌɹoʊz/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɪmɹə‍ʊz/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads

How To Use primrose In A Sentence

  • Now he puts the light sounds with something else remembered, with primrose, with laughter, and down through him a prickle runs and it seems to stop in his belly, below him.
  • If you can create a bank on which to grow your hedge, this will provide more opportunities for plants like primroses, violets and stitchworts.
  • At the door stood a tall, slender woman with primrose skin and curly white hair.
  • Long threads of primrose yellow stuck to the back of my moist neck, my hair thick, lengthy, down around my shoulders.
  • The walls were painted with a water-based powder distemper, usually in grass green or primrose colour.
  • We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
  • Elsewhere they would be called primrose, but the use of the Latin name is appropriate for this place. Archive 2008-03-01
  • said Rye with enough frost in her voice to blast a rathe primrose. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • And it was nothing more, -- would have been a whit roused from its apathy, by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
  • Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places.
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