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.

Example Sentences

Samolus, sam′ō-lus, n. a genus of herbaceous plants of the primrose family.

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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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Besides the primrose family, many other plants of several distinct natural orders present similar phenomena, one or two of the most curious of which must be referred to.

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