wild crocus

Questions about wild crocus

What does wild crocus mean?

wild crocus means "short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia".

What is another word for wild crocus?

Close synonyms include American pasqueflower, Eastern pasque flower, lion's beard, prairie anemone, blue tulip. 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 wild crocus a common word?

wild 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.