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primerole

primerole noun: a primrose.

Noun

primerole (plural primeroles)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) A primrose.
    • […] not a rill of water but crept from its hiding place, under banks entangled with briers and weeds, or thickly set with their clusters of primeroles (to use old Chaucer's word for that palest and prettiest of yellow flowers) […]c. 1884, Anna Eliza Bray, Henry de Pomeroy: The Eve of St. John
    • Primeroles and anemones were awake in the filbert-brakes; and asphodel and many lily-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass […]1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Forms of primerole

pluralprimeroles

Questions about primerole

What does primerole mean?
Primerole means a primrose.
What part of speech is primerole?
Primerole is a noun.
What is the plural of primerole?
The plural of primerole is primeroles.

Words near primerole in the dictionary

  1. primer
  2. primer cord
  3. primer cords
  4. primerless
  5. primero
  6. primerole
  7. primeroles
  8. Primeros
  9. primers
  10. primes
  11. primes the pump

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