Crocus

Quick meaning: Crocus is a noun meaning A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.

Meaning

A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.

More Meanings

1. Any of various similar flowering plants, such as autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
2. (inorganic chemistry, obsolete) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
3. (Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) Burlap.
4. (obsolete, slang) A fraudulent doctor; a quack.

Example Sentences

a crocus bag

The crocus of this novel is gusty Professor Louis Delfontaine, quack doctor, showman, charlatan and man of parts.

The characteristics of the crocus or vagabond quack doctor appear to find a sardonically appropriate origin in the Erse cruach-bhas, a bloody death.

Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.

Word Forms

• crocuses
• croci
• crocusses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saffron, sativa, chaliced, irid, saffern, safron.

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