Primrose

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Any plant of the genus Primula.

II. Primrose ·adj Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose;

— hence, flowery; gay.

III. Primrose ·adj An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. 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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