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prim⋅rose

  [prim-rohz]
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–noun
1. any plant of the genus Primula, as P. vulgaris (English primrose), of Europe, having yellow flowers, or P. sinensis (Chinese primrose), of China, having flowers in a variety of colors. Compare primrose family.
2. evening primrose.
3. pale yellow.
–adjective
4. of or pertaining to the primrose.
5. Also, primrosed. abounding in primroses: a primrose garden.
6. of a pale yellow.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME primerose < ML prīma rosa first rose
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prim·rose   (prĭm'rōz')   
n.  

  1. Any of numerous plants of the genus Primula, having well-developed basal leaves and tubular, variously colored flowers grouped in umbels or heads with a funnel-shaped or salverlike corolla and a tube much longer than the calyx.

  2. An evening primrose.


[Middle English primerose, from Old French, from Medieval Latin prīma rosa, first rose : Latin prīma, feminine of prīmus, first; see prime + Latin rosa, rose.]
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Word Origin & History

primrose 
1413, primerose, from O.Fr. primerose (12c.), from M.L. prima rosa, lit. "first rose," so called because it blooms early in spring. Parallel name primula (1101) is from O.Fr. primerole, from M.L. primula "primrose," shortened from primula veris "firstling of spring," prop. fem. of L. primulus, dim. of primus; but primerole was used in O.Fr. and M.E. of other flowers (cowslips, field daisies). The primrose path is from "Hamlet" I, iii.
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