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UK
/pɹˈɪmjʊlɐ/
]
NOUN
- 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 primula In A Sentence
- Apart from a pale yellow primula, snowdrops are the only flowers in the front garden but despite this there is plenty of other interest.
- The problem seems to affect people sensitive to primulas.
- A primula is still making a brave attempt at flowering, and it will soon be replaced with blue and white trailing and bush lobelia, and green and white flowered nicotiana.
- And everywhere I look there are primulas and polyanthus showing their bright little flowers.
- If the pollen from one of the genus Primula fertilises an ovule belonging to a flower of e.g., the genus Hottonia, a bigener would result.
- Their favourite was the rose, followed by hellebores, peonies, clematis, magnolias, lilies, euphorbias, primulas, snowdrops, geraniums.
- In my garden I am happily growing the common primrose, cultivated cowslips, and primulas.
- Their favourite was the rose, followed by hellebores, peonies, clematis, magnolias, lilies, euphorbias, primulas, snowdrops, geraniums.
- The London rocket (_Sisymbrium irio_) occurs only in the old towns of Hertford and Ware; the true oxlip (_Primula elatior_) near the head of the River Stort; a very rare broom-rape, _Orobanche cærulea_, at Hertfordshire
- You can use a combination of plants: primulas, cyclamen, heathers and ivy are all useful for winter colour.