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• The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.From the entry sprout
• The saffron crocus has to be planted by hand from corms.2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 268. From the entry corm
• Those crocus-y flowers gracing area yards now are called autumn crocus but belong to the genus Colchicum.1983 September 15, Melissa Wallace, “All Things Green and Growing: Cool nights reminder of fall garden chores”, in The Daily News…. From the entry crocus-y
• Fresh and cool as a crocus, this pretty dress is designed with a cleverly concealed backwrap.1940, Fashions of the Hour, page 27. From the entry backwrap
• The crocus metallorum, or liver of antimony, was a violent cathartic and emetic.1920 May 15, Lancet, No. 1047, p. 1. From the entry liver of antimony
• Tets are 44-chromosome conversions from 22-chromosome diploids, created by elaborate means involving colchicine, a chemical found naturally in crocuses.2017, Susan Brownmiller, “Daylily Dreams”, in My City Highrise Garden, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry tet
• Depending on the variety and species of autumn crocus that you plant, you could have crocus-y blossoms right through late fall.2009 October 20, Lee Reich, “Fake and real crocuses put on an autumn show”, in Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus, Oh., page 4A, column 2. From the entry crocus-y
• You can also have a long bloom season by including fall-flowering plants like chrysanthemums, anemones, cimicifugas, fall-blooming crocuses and false crocuses (colchicums).2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times. From the entry cimicifuga
• The drifts of flowering snowdrops might have been matched elsewhere in Cardiff, but it is doubtful if the crocusses were, this early.2002 November, Mary E[leanor] Gillham, “Western Outliers; Fairwater, Victoria & Thompsons’ Parks”, in A Natural History of Cardiff –…. From the entry crocusses
• In the springtime, when the deep snow has given away, crocusses and snowdrops bloom, but there is nobody there to admire their beauty.1967, Bruce Ramsey, “Looking Both Ways”, in Britannia: The Story of a Mine, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN…. From the entry crocusses
• Many hundreds of the choicest varieties of tulips, narcisses and crocuses, with squills and other bulbs, sent up their delicate flowers during the early spring.1910, Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture of the Province of Prince Edward Island, page 34. From the entry narciss
• They had spread themselves beneath the oaks and chestnuts and planted the green banks with tussocks of crocuses; it was more like some exercise in trichology than horticulture.1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun. From the entry trichology
• There are no more gapemouthed crocuses, or poppies wide with woe to wreath her fingers; the earth is a hunched and sightless woman, holding herself together with her hair.1974, James B. Meriwether, A Faulkner Miscellany, page 23. From the entry gapemouthed

Meaning of crocus

1. noun A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
2. noun Any of various similar flowering plants, such as autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
3. noun A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.

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Questions about crocus in a sentence

How do you use crocus in a sentence?

Crocus is used as a noun. For example: “The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.”

What is a short sentence with crocus?

“a crocus bag”

What does crocus mean?

Crocus means a perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.