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crocus-y

crocus-y is the alternative form of crocusy.

Meaning of crocusy

Adjective

crocusy (comparative more crocusy, superlative most crocusy)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of crocuses.
    • You don’t think that perhaps a big chou and ends of pale yellow chiffon—the nice spring crocusy yellow—would improve me?1902, Eleanor Hoyt, “Gowns and a Gobolink”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VII, page 378, column 2
  2. (rare) Featuring crocuses.
    • Spring should have begun, yesterday, in earnest but the weather hangs back this year and so far there has not been much “Spring by advance installments.” There hasn’t been a real, balmy, crocusy, johnnyjumpup, Spring day, yet, and this is the 22nd.o f^([sic]) March.1909 March 22, The Piqua Daily Call, volume XXVI, number 135, Piqua, Oh.: The Call Publishing Co., page [2], column 2

Forms of crocus-y

comparativemore crocus-y
superlativemost crocus-y

Questions about crocus-y

What is crocus-y the alternative form of?
Crocus-y is the alternative form of crocusy.

Words near crocus-y in the dictionary

  1. crocoxanthin
  2. crocs
  3. crocus
  4. crocus of Mars
  5. crocus of Venus
  6. crocus-y
  7. crocused
  8. crocuses
  9. crocuslike
  10. crocusses
  11. crocussy

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