primrose : Idioms & Phrases

• 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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• noun cultivated Asiatic primrose
  Primula sinensis.
  

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• noun a life of ease and pleasure
  

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

Webster 1913