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crocus
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Definition:1. (Bot.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---n. a bulbous plant with brilliant yellow or purple flowers: (slang) a quack doctor.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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Under the frozen ground the crocus and the hyacinth and the tulip hide in their hearts the perfect forms of future flowers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Chimney-Corner (1877)
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On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened.
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Flowers peeped out amongst the leaves; snow-drops, crocuses, purple auriculas, and golden-eyed pansies.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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He talks about the plans for the house: the skylights, expanding the deck, planting flower beds of tulips and crocuses, clearing the poison oak, adding another wing, building a Japanese-style tile bathroom.
Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club, p.176 (1989)
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The cold goblin spring of the crocuses was past.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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