primula vulgaris

1. 1.

   plant of western and southern Europe widely cultivated for its pale yellow flowers

   SynonymsEnglish primrose

   Broaderprimrose

Questions about primula vulgaris

What does primula vulgaris mean?

primula vulgaris means "plant of western and southern Europe widely cultivated for its pale yellow flowers".

What is another word for primula vulgaris?

Close synonyms include English primrose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is primula vulgaris a common word?

primula vulgaris 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.