Words similar to primrose

Example sentences for: primrose

How can you use “primrose” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A Primrose by any Other Name.
' There is, however, an alternative derivation, since, in Middle English, earlier than the first record of primrose , the plant was known as primerole or saynt peterworte.
The conclusion to be drawn from my nine years of reporting on the AIDS epidemic for the New York Native is a somber one: Patients, activists, and uncritical journalists have been led down a tragic primrose path.
It might have been a primrose, although they usually grow in woods and under hedges.
It is possible that before the 15th century both the primrose and the cowslip ( Primula veris ) were regarded as one and the same and called cowslips [Old English cuslippe ]. Since where the two species grow near to each other they hybridize freely giving rise to intermediate forms, the need for two names might not have been apparent in earlier times.