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- noun Plural form of
primrose .
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Examples
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The lights behind the primroses were the sunlight coming through the windows in the greenhouse, that kind of light is hard to top!
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The primroses are the favorite snack of the slugs, but I have found these pretty plants can live in a drier spot to save them from those slimeballs.
Bloom Day/Foliage Day Combo-February 2010 « Fairegarden 2010
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Seeing the primroses was the perfect greeting when we got home, one of my favorite views of the entire garden, right outside glass doors where I sit with the laptop.
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There were many flowers up and down, and she loved them all, but the primroses were her favourites.
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald 1864
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As the long winter starts finally breaking into spring, it isn't too early to start using edible flowers such as primroses and violets, which are out now.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Emine Saner 2010
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a variety of coloring, which the Mexicans call "primroses," while a number of mockingbirds were warbling airs worthy of the nightingale.
Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863
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When first of primroses appears in a covering of seeds?
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If he had come he would be in the room she had helped to get ready for him, the primroses she'd picked in the vase on the dressing- table.
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Sunny pink evening primroses mark the spot where there was once a perennial bed.
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Towards Cotehele, in the shade of beech and oak, primroses and violets remain fresh and the fronds of Golden Scaly Male ferns deck ledges of overgrown quarries.
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