Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun [lowercase] A plant of the genus Colchicum.
  • noun [NL.] A genus of liliaceous plants, with radical leaves, generally produced in spring, and crocus-like flowers appearing in the autumn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun chiefly fall-blooming perennial cormous herbs; sometimes placed in family Colchicaceae

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Examples

  • Plant Autumn Crocus, also called Colchicum bulbs (the blooms resemble spring crocus, but are much bigger), in the summer as they flower in the fall.

    The Taunton Gazette Home RSS 2009

  • Plant Autumn Crocus, also called Colchicum bulbs (the blooms resemble spring crocus, but are much bigger), in the summer as they flower in the fall.

    The Taunton Gazette Home RSS 2009

  • Plant Autumn Crocus, also called Colchicum bulbs (the blooms resemble spring crocus, but are much bigger), in the summer as they flower in the fall.

    The Taunton Gazette Home RSS 2009

  • Plant Autumn Crocus, also called Colchicum bulbs (the blooms resemble spring crocus, but are much bigger), in the summer as they flower in the fall.

    The Taunton Gazette Home RSS 2009

  • Plant Autumn Crocus, also called Colchicum bulbs (the blooms resemble spring crocus, but are much bigger), in the summer as they flower in the fall.

    The Taunton Gazette Home RSS 2009

  • This week's promising drug candidate is colchicine, a toxin found in Colchicum, the strange flower that comes up in the fall after its leaves have disappeared also known as the naked lady or the autumn crocus.

    Drugs That Are as Smart as Our Diseases Matt Ridley 2011

  • Israel 6D (1958): 167 – 173; “Chromosome numbers and evolution in the genus Colchicum.”

    Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan. 2009

  • Her memory lives on in a number of plants named in her honor by colleagues in Israel and abroad, among them Astragalus feinbruniae (1970), Bellevalia feinbruniae (1970) and Colchicum feinbruniae (1992).

    Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan. 2009

  • Israel 5D (1955): 5 – 35, 1955; “Chromosome numbers in the genus Colchicum.”

    Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan. 2009

  • Colchicum, with a sigh, as he inclined his purple face towards a large goblet of claret.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

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