crocuses
crocuses is the plural of crocus.
Meaning of crocus
Noun (1)
crocus (plural crocuses or croci or crocus or crocusses)
- A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
- Other foreign terms have become so thoroughly Anglicised as to adopt English plurals, and it is sometimes difficult to decide whether the English or the original foreign form is the more correct. None but a pedant would speak of ‘the chori of an opera,’ ‘the croci in a garden,’ or ‘the dogmata of...[a. 1881, William B[allantyne] Hodgson, “Noun”, in Errors in the Use of English, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1881, part II (Accidence), page 70
- Any of various similar flowering plants, such as autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
- A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
Noun (2)
crocus (plural crocuses)
- A fraudulent doctor; a quack.
- The characteristics of the crocus or vagabond quack doctor appear to find a sardonically appropriate origin in the Erse cruach-bhas, a bloody death.1887, Charles James Ribton-Turner, A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging, page 479
Noun (3)
crocus (uncountable)
- Burlap.
- a crocus bag
Phrases with crocuses
Questions about crocuses
- What is crocuses the plural of?
- Crocuses is the plural of crocus.
Words near crocuses in the dictionary
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