Word Meanings - PRIMROSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Formerly
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• Yellowroot
  Any one of several plants with yellow roots.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• FLOWERFENCE
  A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.
• Thereabout
  Alt. of Thereabouts
• WHITEFRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose (Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• Thereon
  On that or this.
• YELLOWCOVERED
  Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation
• Whitebeam
  The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• White friar
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Whiteside
  The golden-eye.
• Flower
  In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
• Whitewort
  Wild camomile.
• Yellows
  A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• FLOWERGENTLE
  A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

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