thrum-eyed
adjective
(of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma on a short style below the anthers, which lie in the mouth of the corolla on big stamens: Compare pin-eyed
Origin of thrum-eyed
1C19: from thrum ², because of the ring of anthers visible at the neck of the corolla
Words Nearby thrum-eyed
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How to use thrum-eyed in a sentence
Like the common primrose, the primula exhibits both pin-eyed and thrum-eyed varieties.
Mendelism | Reginald Crundall PunnettThe former occur in the so-called thrum-eyed primroses (fig. 61), the latter in the “pin-eyed.”
They have been long known to children and gardeners, who call them thrum-eyed and pin-eyed.
The Beauties of Nature | Sir John Lubbock
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