primrose : Idioms & Phrases


cape primrose

  • noun any of various African plants of the genus Streptocarpus widely cultivated especially as houseplants for their showy blue or purple flowers
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chinese primrose

  • noun cultivated Asiatic primrose
    Primula sinensis.
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common evening primrose

  • noun a coarse biennial of eastern North America with yellow flowers that open in the evening; naturalized in Europe
    Oenothera biennis; German rampion.
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english primrose

  • noun plant of western and southern Europe widely cultivated for its pale yellow flowers
    Primula vulgaris.
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Evening primrose

  • noun any of several plants of the family Onagraceae
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  • 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.
Webster 1913

evening-primrose family

  • noun a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales
    family Onagraceae; Onagraceae.
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missouri primrose

  • noun evening-opening primrose of south central United States
    Ozark sundrops; Oenothera macrocarpa.
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primrose family

  • noun a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
    Primulaceae; family Primulaceae.
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primrose jasmine

  • noun evergreen rambling yellow-flowered shrub of western China
    Jasminum mesnyi.
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primrose path

  • noun a life of ease and pleasure
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Primrose peerless

  • the two-flowered Narcissus (N. biflorus). Obs.
Webster 1913