Noun:

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crocus's Usage Examples:

of this class, with which may be associated hardy subjects which flower during that season or very early spring, as the Christmas rose, and amongst bulbs the crocus and snowdrop.

north of Haarlem to twice that distance south, hyacinths, tulips, narcissus and crocuses being the flowers chiefly cultivated.

Showy autumn-blooming bulbs (corms), with crocuslike flowers, all rosy-purple or white.

The crocus succeeds in any fairly good garden soil, and is usually planted near the edges of beds or borders in the flower garden, or in broadish patches at intervals along the mixed borders.

aureus (Dutch crocus), the two former yielding the white, purple and striped, and the latter the yellow varieties.

PLANTING It's bulb time again so start planting crocuses, narcissi, snowdrops in odd number groups.

The same mode of increase occurs in the gladiolus and crocus, but their bulb-like permanent parts are called corms, not bulbs.

Finally for more all year color bulbs such as yellow and purple crocuses were added.

The principal flowers are hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, narcissus and other bulbous plants, the total export of which is estimated at over 200,000.

Thus, in the tulip, crocus, lily, speak of the parts of the perianth, in place of corolla, although in these plants there is an outer whorl (calyx), of three parts, and an inner (corolla), of a similar number, alternating with them.

Plant the greater part of the common border bulbs, as hyacinths, narcissi, crocuses and early tulips, about the end of the month, with a few anemones for early flowering.

I noticed some crocus and daffodils coming up in the front.

Synonyms:

iridaceous plant, saffron, saffron crocus, genus Crocus, Crocus sativus,

Antonyms:

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