primrose family

noun

1. the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.

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Blarney (Lady), one of the flash women introduced by squire Thornhill to the Primrose family.

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The seeds of several species of water plants of the genus Trapa, of the evening primrose family (Onagrace).

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The cowslip, a species of primrose, is a European plant and belongs to the Primrose Family.

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This is one of that section of the Primrose family having stout scapes and compact heads of bloom.

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There were other flowers unfamiliar to me and hundreds of big blossoms of what I took to be a member of the primrose family.

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