Synonyms:
primrose, primula
Meaning: any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads
Usage examples
"Why did you bite poor Primrose?"
But no primrose way nor clicking cue could woo the remorseful soul of Perkins the bereft.
He never took any notice of them, and his face shone pure and good in the middle of them, like a primrose in a hailstorm.
The young Primrose plants, sown in March, have been planted out in their special garden, and are looking well after some genial rain.
"She'll come by-and-by." "You will never see her." "She went home to dies, "Till the new year." "Snowdrop!" "'Tis no good To invite her." "Primrose is very rude, "I will bite her."
During the latter part of the song-talk, they had formed themselves into a funeral procession, two of them bearing poor Primrose, whose death Pocket had hastened by biting her stalk, upon one of her own great leaves.
The unfenced prairie billowed to the horizon a sea of green, diversified by the sky-blue waters of slough and lake, and decked with the hues of gorgeous flowers--the prairie rose, fragrant, tender, elusive, and fragile as the English primrose; the blood-red tiger-lily; the brown windflower with its corn-tassel; the heavy wax cups of the sedgy water-lily, growing where wild duck flackered unafraid.