Crossword clues for primrose
primrose
- Pale yellow
- Type of path
- Plant with sHOwy flowers
- Evening ____
- The English one has yellow flowers
- Snowbell's cousin
- Pale yellow— a primula
- Pale yellow flower
- Flower that's often yellow
- Flower found on a path?
- Flower — pale yellow
- Down the ____ path
- "Lane" in a Jerry Wallace hit
- "A ___ by the river's brim . . . "
- _____ River, Yukon
- Medicinal plant cultivated in vigneron's empire
- Cowslip
- Flower from which an oil is derived
- Any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads
- Kind of path
- Written work about border plant
- Writing about border in bloom
- Woodland plant with yellow flowers in spring
- Flower sprang up by soft verge
- Flower in formal lines, we hear
- A girl having the edge in writing?
- Yellow flower border in everyday language
- Pale yellow- a primula
- Pale yellow wine that's proper going to head
- Tedious talk about border plant
- Spring flower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Primrose \Prim"rose`\, n. [OE. primerole, F. primerole, a derivative fr. LL. primula, from L. primus first. See Prime, a.] (Bot.)
An early flowering plant of the genus Primula ( Primula vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.
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Any plant of the genus Primula.
Evening primrose, an erect biennial herb ( Enothera biennis), with yellow vespertine flowers, common in the United States. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
Primrose peerless, the two-flowered Narcissus ( Narcissus biflorus). [Obs.]
Primrose \Prim"rose`\, a.
Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose;
-- hence, flowery; gay. ``The primrose path of dalliance.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., prymrose, from Old French primerose, primerole (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin prima rosa, literally "first rose," so called because it blooms early in spring (see prime (adj.)). As the name of a pale yellow color, by 1844.\n
\nParallel name primula (c.1100) is from Old French primerole, from Medieval Latin primula "primrose," shortened from primula veris "firstling of spring," thus properly fem. of Latin primulus, diminutive of primus; but primerole was used in Old French and Middle English of other flowers (cowslips, field daisies). The primrose path is from "Hamlet" I, iii.
Wiktionary
a. Of a light yellow colour. n. 1 A flowering plant of the genus ''Primula''. 2 A plant of the family Primulaceae. 3 A plant of the genus ''Oenothera, better known as an evening primrose''. 4 Specifically, the species (taxlink Primula vulgaris species noshow=1). 5 A flower of a primrose plant. 6 A light yellow colour.
WordNet
n. any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads [syn: primula]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 37.394822 sq. miles (96.852140 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.971281 sq. miles (2.515607 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 38.366103 sq. miles (99.367747 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64240
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 60.343405 N, 149.344250 W
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Total area (2000): 0.278198 sq. miles (0.720529 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40360
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.624736 N, 98.237545 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68655
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Wikipedia
Primrose may refer to:
Primrose is a musical in three acts with a book by Guy Bolton and George Grossmith Jr., lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. It centers on a writer whose story-within-a-story forms the basis of the plot. It was written expressly for the London stage, where it ran for 255 performances in 1924 and 1925. The musical was not performed in the United States until more than half a century after it was written.
George Gershwin, at 25 years old, was an established songwriter by 1924 when Grossmith and his producing partners, J. A. E. Malone and Edward Laurillard, hired him to produce the score for Primrose for them in London. The musical is the first in which Gershwin wrote some of the orchestrations himself. The year was one of the busiest for Gershwin, as it also included his Rhapsody in Blue and two other musicals. Gershwin's score, and the book by Bolton are old-fashioned for their time, with more in common with the frothy Edwardian musical comedies than with the later Gershwin musicals. Nevertheless, Desmond Carter's witty lyrics and the show's farcical book have been praised by reviewers, while Gershwin's score has been compared with Gilbert and Sullivan.
Usage examples of "primrose".
With all the currency corralled by the late Store-Keeper padded into his Norfolk Jacket, the gallus Offspring hurried to the Metrop to pick the Primroses.
In defiance of monition and in spite of resolution, the primrose path is trodden by all sorts and conditions of men, sinners no doubt, but not necessarily abstractions of sin, and to assert the contrary makes for cant and not for righteousness.
Sunday morning, a data-entry technician named Primrose Hobbs removed fragmented human tissue bearing morgue number 387 from a refrigerated trailer containing cases in process.
Primrose, pictured her hobbling out to our final meeting in the morgue parking lot.
Sometimes the leaves are as large as a full-grown polyanthus leaf, whilst other plants, which have flowered equally well, have not produced foliage larger than that of primroses, when having their earliest flowers.
It was all of blue and gold, the blue of the tiny bugle and the gold of ranunculus and primrose, and in the adjacent shadow of the trees were great drifts of wild hyacinths.
Then down again, through more fir-woods, where the timber was being felled, and great tree-trunks lay piled in rows one above another, and past banks that were a dream, with starry blackthorn blossom and primroses growing beneath, to where the cross-roads met and the signpost pointed an arm to Sudbury.
Gane were but the winter cauld, And gane were but the snaw, I could sleep in the wild woods, Where primroses blaw.
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.
However, the fact that the Warwickshire fellow wrote the plays is most satisfactorily proved on the strength of an applejohn and a pale primrose.
In a tiny clearing surrounded by the oldest trees lay a carpet of wildflowers of every hue, many unknown in the north: orchid, iris, bellflower, campion, foxglove, betony, pimpernel, primrose, violet, and cranesbill.
Laurel kept stumbling over tangles of alligator weed that was entwined with delicate yellow bladderwort and water primrose.
The whole car, except for a black roof and black carrosserie lines and curved panels below the windows, was primrose yellow.
House was not far, yet the ride north to its strangely isolated location near Primrose Hill seemed blocked by every waggoner, cartman, and drover in London.
They were all, too, calling down vengeance on the head of Miss Primrose Crabapple, and demanding that she should be found and handed over to justice.