Crocus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CROCUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an iridaceous plant with brilliant yellow, purple or white flowers
• a small spring-flowering Eurasian plant of the iris family, which grows from a corm and bears bright yellow, purple, or white flowers.
• 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.
• A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
• any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
• flowering plant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a flowering plant

Words related to CROCUS

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Words that contain CROCUS

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How to use CROCUS in a sentence

• A ring of crocuses hung from its edge and a crocus turned upside down made a fascinating cap.
• They are fond of the crocus, which is the earliest of our bulbous roots.
• The flowers appear about the end of July, resembling a White Crocus in form, and the blooming continues until cold weather sets in.
• On his back he wears the tawny hide of a lynx, and his heart rejoices with shrill songs in the soft meadow where crocus and fragrant hyacinth bloom all mingled amidst the grass.
• Like the crocus and the snowdrops of northern climates it appears before the grass is green.
• The frost had come and hardened the snow and all day the sky bad been a pale frozen blue, only on the horizon fading into crocus yellow.
• Nowhere did the crocus come gayly up into the soft atmosphere of early spring in advance of ours.
• The snowdrop and crocus had long ago hid their faces to make way for more ambitious rivals.
• Just by the crocus there was a gap in the hedge, which in the sketch was indicated rather than drawn.
• They were not nearly such finished portraits as that of the crocus.
• Pussy willow and snowdrop were the first to herald the spring, and crocus and violet soon followed.
• But the brook that hath seen you come Leaps forth with a hearty shout, And the crocus peeps from the bed where it sleeps To know what the noise is about.
• On receiving an early crocus and some violets in a letter from Ireland.
• The CROCUS, Crocus lutens, having no native name, has yet, it is believed, been hardly ever known to flower here, even with the utmost care.
• The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus.
• Lo beneath her feet The loving crocus bursts in sudden bloom.
• How is it that we enjoy so much the having it put into our heads that it is anything else than a plain crocus? It is an important question.

Similar words containing CROCU without suffix s

crocuses12 microcurie16 microcuries17 microculture18 microcultural19 microcultures19 micromicrocurie25

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