primrose

Any of numerous plants of the genus Primula, having large basal leaves and clusters of variously colored flowers with a five-lobed bell-shaped or salverform corolla.

A plant of the genus Primula; especially, a variety of Primula veris, in which the flowers appear as if on separate peduncles, the short common stalk being hidden beneath the base of the leaves.

One of a few other plants with some resemblance to the primrose. See the phrases below.

The first or earliest flower; a spring flower.

Figuratively, the first or choicest; the flower.

In heraldry, a quatrefoil used as a bearing.

A pale and somewhat greenish-yellow color.

A coal-tar color used in dyeing, being the potassium ethyl salt of tetrabrom-fluorescein. It is mostly used in silk-dyeing, producing pinkish-yellow shades.

Of or belonging to a primrose; specifically, resembling a primrose in color; paleyellow.

Abounding with primroses; flowery; gay.