crocus

1. 1.

   any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated

   Broaderiridaceous plant

   Narrowersaffron

   Part ofgenus Crocus

Other forms of crocus

plural

crocuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crocus

What does crocus mean?

crocus means "any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated".

How many syllables are in crocus?

crocus has 2 syllables: cro-cus. The stress falls on "cro". In IPA it is /ˈkɹoʊkəs/.

Is crocus a common word?

crocus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.