crocus
/ˈkrəʊkəs
/noun (plural crocuses or croci /ˈkrəʊkʌɪ/ /ˈkrəʊkiː/)
A small spring-flowering Eurasian plant of the iris family, which grows from a corm and bears bright yellow, purple, or white flowers. See also autumn crocus.
- Genus Crocus, family Iridaceae.
- Your hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and grape-hyacinths can be saved for planting in the garden.
- Spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils, and irises are universal symbols of spring.
Origin
Late Middle English (also denoting saffron, obtained from a species of crocus): via Latin from Greek krokos, of Semitic origin and related to Hebrew karkōm and Arabic kurkum.
Rhymes
- bejabbers
- bejabers
- bejeezus
- bejesus
- bejewel
- bejeweled
- bejewelled
- be joined at the hip
- be jumping up and down
- be (just) what the doctor ordered
- Bekaa
- be keyed up
- bel
- belabor
- belabour
- Bel Air
- Bel and the Dragon
- Belarus
- Belarusian
- belated
- belatedly
- belatedness
- Belau
- Belauan
- be laughing all the way to the bank