Crossword clues for crocus
crocus
- Spring bulb
- Spring harbinger
- Garden bulb
- Early spring bloomer
- Springtime bloomer
- Early spring bloom
- Spring-flowering plant
- Manitoba's flower
- Spring bellwether
- Saffron flower
- One of the first spring blooms
- Manitoba's official flower
- Long-tubed iris relative
- Flower that saffron comes from
- Flower from corm
- Early riser?
- Orangish yellow
- Long-tubed flower
- Any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers
- Native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
- Spring bloom
- An irid
- A sign of spring
- Creature that snaps our side's bulbous plant
- One known for snapping American plant
- Simply lock for solid support
- Flower pot almost useless
- Reptile next to American flower
- Perennial reptilian superpower
- Spring flower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rouge \Rouge\, n. [F.]
(Chem.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.
--Ure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin crocus, from Greek krokos "saffron, crocus," probably of Semitic origin (compare Arabic kurkum), ultimately from Sanskrit kunkumam, unless the Sanskrit word is from the Semitic one. The autumnal crocus (Crocus sativa) was a common source of yellow dye in Roman times, and was perhaps grown in England, where the word existed as Old English croh, but this form of the word was forgotten by the time the plant was re-introduced in Western Europe by the Crusaders.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A perennial flowering plant (of the genus ''Crocus'' in the ''Iridaceae'' family). saffron is obtained from the stamens of ''Crocus sativus''. 2 Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus. 3 (context chemistry obsolete English) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
WordNet
n. any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
Wikipedia
CROCUS is a research reactor at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, sometimes described as zero power but in fact limited to 100 W.
This low power means that within a few hours of shutdown, it is safe for personnel to enter the biological shield, as the residual radioactivity of the core has decayed to safe levels. The biological shield consists of a concrete wall, with a 14-ton door for personnel access. There is also a removable 50-ton concrete trapdoor in the top of the shield, to allow for fuel and equipment changes.
CROCUS uses low-enriched uranium (LEU) metal fuel, immersed in a tank of demineralised light water which acts as moderator and reflector. There is no special provision for cooling required.
CROCUS is controlled by two control rods and by adjusting the water level in the moderator tank. A neutron source is placed under the core to aid startup. In addition, there are two safety control rods and four surge tanks, making six independent safety systems. Any one of these six is capable of producing a complete emergency shutdown ( scram) in less than one second, and is triggered automatically should power exceed the authorised level.
CROCUS is used for teaching reactor physics.
In Classical mythology, Crocus was a mortal youth who, because he was unhappy with his love affair with the nymph Smilax, was turned by the gods into a plant bearing his name, the crocus ( saffron). Smilax is believed to have been given a similar fate and transformed into bindweed.
In another variation of the myth, Crocus was said to be a companion of Hermes and was accidentally killed by the god in a game of discus. Hermes was so distraught at this that he transformed Crocus' body into a flower. The myth is similar to that of Apollon and Hyacinthus, and may indeed be a variation thereof.
In his translation of Nonnos' Dionysiaca, W.H.D. Rouse describes the tale of Crocus as being from the late Classical period and little-known.
Crocus may refer to:
- Crocus, a genus of perennial flowering plants in the Iridaceae family
- Crocus (or Krokus) a youth who in mythology was turned into the crocus flower
- Crocus - French-language title of the 1980s Japanese animated series Tongari boshi no Memole
- Colchicum autumnale, a medicinal plant in the Colchicaceae family
- Chrocus, a 4th-century king of the Alamanni
- Crocus, Kentucky, a small town in the United States
- 1220 Crocus, a main-belt asteroid
- M917 Crocus, a Tripartite class minehunter
- USS Crocus (1862), a Union Navy ship
- HMS Crocus, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
- Crocus class brig-sloop, the only 14-gun class of brig-sloops built for the Royal Navy
- Crocus Technology, a company developing 2nd generation MRAM
- Crocus Investment Fund, a mutual fund company
- The powdered end-product derived from the calcination of metallic ore
Usage examples of "crocus".
Crocus in having six stamina, and from the Colchicum, to which it is very nearly allied, in having one style instead of three.
At its several long tables his numerous apprentices sat hunched over boxes full of what looked like the culms of crocus flowers, doing something to them with very tiny knives.
At last the horse struggled up the shore and he was at once directed to the right, leaving a trail of water drops as he followed the others along a narrow trail cut through the forest, mostly oak and hornbeam here along the river, fairly open, with a dense layer of crocus, hellebore, and wild strawberry carpeting the ground.
So that when in February there came a blue, bright morning, the morning that suggests yellow crocuses and the smell of a mezereon tree and the smell of damp, warm earth, Daphne hastily got a taxi and drove out to the hospital.
The crocus of the glen, the anemone of the prairie, the cress of the sheltered waters, the hum of the first insect, the twitter from the mossy nest, the murmur of forest streams, were all so many types of human rejuvenescence and animation.
VII Now the meadows with crocus besprent, And the asphodel woodsides she left, And the lake-slopes, the ravishing scent Of narcissus, dark-sweet, for the cleft That tutors the torrent-brook, Delaying its forceful spleen With many a wind and crook Through rock to the broad ravine.
Crocuses blossomed in purple, white and yellow, and trees were hazed with leaf-buds.
Crocus walked with her father and the Shaman to the bone stockpile, a short distance from the mastodont stockade.
Aralia Sieboldi, Bulbocodium vernum, Cheiranthus Cheiri, Crocus medius, Eranthis hyemalis, Helleborus abchasicus, H.
From this description it will be seen that the flower is a rather small Crocus, but from the soft tints of the perianth, and more pronounced and bright colours of the seed organs, it is one of much beauty.
And the charm of the old manor around him, the garden with its grey stone walls and yew hedges--broad, broad yew hedges and a peacock pausing to glitter and scream in the busy silence of an English spring, when celandines open their yellow under the hedges, and violets are in the secret, and by the broad paths of the garden polyanthus and crocuses vary the velvet and flame, and bits of yellow wallflower shake raggedly, with a wonderful triumphance, out of the cracks of the wall.
I commented on the yellowing sweeps of the willows, on the odd batches of crocus or squill here and there.
I would not say bouquets may be gathered in the depth of winter, but what will be equally cheering may be had in blow, such as the Bluet, Violet, Primrose, Christmas Rose, Crocus, Hepatica, Squills, Snowdrops, and other less known winter bloomers.
In front of the house was a neatly tended square lawn which had been underplanted with crocuses, now just past their best.
Notwithstanding their dead appearance in winter, a capital suggestion occurred to me by an accidental mixture of croci with the Phlox.