pin-eyed

adjective

1. See thrum-eyed
   (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma in the mouth of the corolla, on the end of a long style with the stamens lower in the tube Compare thrum-eyed

Example Sentences

Like the common primrose, the primula exhibits both pin-eyed and thrum-eyed varieties.

From Project Gutenberg

The former occur in the so-called thrum-eyed primroses (fig. 61), the latter in the “pin-eyed.”

From Project Gutenberg

They have been long known to children and gardeners, who call them thrum-eyed and pin-eyed.

From Project Gutenberg