primrosy
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[edit]primrosy (comparative more primrosy, superlative most primrosy)
- Having primroses growing.
- c. April-May 1865, Lucy Caroline Wedgwood, letter to Charles Darwin
- […] there were 8 or 10 plants growing in a group (some very small), but no primrose or cowslips anywhere near (tho in a primrosy wood).
- 1921, Sunset Magazine, volume 47, page 41:
- I wonder sometimes just how sweet and primrosy the paths of the Elysian fields will have to be to win Miss Swinton's unqualified approval.
- c. April-May 1865, Lucy Caroline Wedgwood, letter to Charles Darwin