| p
|
(noun) the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet |
Synonyms:
P |
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| pa
|
(noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk |
Synonyms:
dada,
pop,
dad,
daddy,
papa,
pappa |
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| pablum
|
(noun) worthless or oversimplified ideas |
Synonyms:
pap |
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| pabulum
|
(noun) any substance that can be used as food |
Synonyms:
eatable,
edible,
victual,
victuals,
comestible |
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| (noun) insipid intellectual nourishment |
- |
| paca
|
(noun) large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food |
Synonyms:
Cuniculus paca |
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| pace
|
(verb) walk with slow or fast paces |
- |
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| (verb) go at a pace |
- |
| (verb) measure (distances) by pacing |
Synonyms:
step |
| (verb) regulate or set the pace of |
- |
| (noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running) |
Synonyms:
gait |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step |
Synonyms:
step,
stride,
footstep |
| (noun) the relative speed of progress or change |
Synonyms:
rate |
| (noun) a step in walking or running |
Synonyms:
stride,
tread |
| (noun) the rate of some repeating event |
Synonyms:
tempo |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride |
Synonyms:
yard |
| pacemaker
|
(noun) a leading instance in its field |
Synonyms:
pacesetter |
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| (noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat |
Synonyms:
SA node,
sinoatrial node,
cardiac pacemaker |
| (noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker |
Synonyms:
artificial pacemaker |
| (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing |
Synonyms:
pacesetter,
pacer |
| pacer
|
(noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing |
Synonyms:
pacemaker,
pacesetter |
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| (noun) a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together |
- |
| pacesetter
|
(noun) a leading instance in its field |
Synonyms:
pacemaker |
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| (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing |
Synonyms:
pacemaker,
pacer |
| pacha
|
(noun) a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt |
Synonyms:
pasha |
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| pachinko
|
(noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board |
- |
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| pachisi
|
(noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board |
Synonyms:
parchesi,
parchisi |
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| pachouli
|
(noun) small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes |
Synonyms:
patchouli,
patchouly,
Pogostemon cablin |
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| (noun) a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant |
Synonyms:
patchouli,
patchouly |
| pachuco
|
(noun) a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes |
- |
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| pachycephalosaur
|
(noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found |
Synonyms:
pachycephalosaurus |
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| pachycephalosaurus
|
(noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found |
Synonyms:
pachycephalosaur |
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| pachycheilia
|
(noun) an abnormal thickness of the lips |
- |
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| pachyderm
|
(noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus |
- |
|---|
| pachyderma
|
(noun) thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction |
Synonyms:
nevoid elephantiasis |
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| pachydermal
|
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms |
Synonyms:
pachydermatous,
pachydermic,
pachydermous |
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| pachydermatous
|
(adjective) emotionally hardened |
Synonyms:
indurate,
callous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms |
Synonyms:
pachydermal,
pachydermic,
pachydermous |
| pachydermic
|
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms |
Synonyms:
pachydermal,
pachydermatous,
pachydermous |
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| pachydermous
|
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms |
Synonyms:
pachydermal,
pachydermatous,
pachydermic |
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| pachysandra
|
(noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover |
- |
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| pachytene
|
(noun) the third stage of the prophase of meiosis |
- |
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| pacific
|
(adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature |
Synonyms:
peaceable |
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| (adjective) promoting peace |
- |
| pacifically
|
(adverb) in a peaceable manner |
Synonyms:
peaceably |
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| pacification
|
(noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined |
Synonyms:
mollification |
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| (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities |
Synonyms:
peace,
peace treaty |
| (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency |
Synonyms:
counterinsurgency |
| pacificism
|
(noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable |
Synonyms:
pacifism,
passivism |
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| (noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration |
Synonyms:
pacifism |
| pacificist
|
(noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes |
Synonyms:
disarmer,
pacifist |
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| pacifier
|
(noun) someone who tries to bring peace |
Synonyms:
reconciler,
make-peace,
peacemaker,
conciliator |
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| (noun) anything that serves to pacify |
- |
| (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on |
Synonyms:
comforter,
baby's dummy,
teething ring |
| pacifism
|
(noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable |
Synonyms:
pacificism,
passivism |
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| (noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration |
Synonyms:
pacificism |
| pacifist
|
(adjective) opposed to war |
Synonyms:
dovish,
pacifistic |
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| (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes |
Synonyms:
disarmer,
pacificist |
| pacifistic
|
(adjective) opposed to war |
Synonyms:
dovish,
pacifist |
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| pacifistically
|
(adverb) in a pacifistic manner |
- |
|---|
| pacify
|
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of |
Synonyms:
gentle,
mollify,
conciliate,
appease,
assuage,
placate,
gruntle,
lenify |
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| (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) |
- |
| pacing
|
(noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played |
Synonyms:
tempo |
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| (noun) walking with slow regular strides |
- |
| pack
|
(verb) arrange in a container |
- |
|---|
| (verb) fill to capacity |
- |
| (verb) compress into a wad |
Synonyms:
bundle,
wad,
compact |
| (verb) carry, as on one's back |
- |
| (verb) set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome |
- |
| (verb) have with oneself; have on one's person |
Synonyms:
carry,
take |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram |
Synonyms:
jam,
mob,
pile,
throng |
| (verb) hike with a backpack |
Synonyms:
backpack |
| (verb) press down tightly |
Synonyms:
tamp,
tamp down |
| (verb) seal with packing |
- |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily |
Synonyms:
compact |
| (verb) load with a pack |
Synonyms:
load down |
| (verb) treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood |
- |
| (noun) a large indefinite quantity |
Synonyms:
multitude,
battalion,
plurality,
large number |
| (noun) a complete collection of similar things |
- |
| (noun) a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film) |
- |
| (noun) an association of criminals |
Synonyms:
ring,
mob,
gang |
| (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose |
Synonyms:
camp,
ingroup,
inner circle,
clique,
coterie |
| (noun) a group of hunting animals |
- |
| (noun) a cream that cleanses and tones the skin |
Synonyms:
face pack |
| (noun) a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect |
- |
| (noun) a bundle (especially one carried on the back) |
- |
| packable
|
(adjective) capable of being packed |
- |
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| package
|
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together |
Synonyms:
parcel,
packet,
bundle |
|---|
| (noun) a wrapped container |
Synonyms:
parcel |
| (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory |
Synonyms:
software package,
software,
software program,
software system,
computer software |
| (verb) put into a box |
Synonyms:
box |
| packaged
|
(adjective) enclosed in a package or protective covering |
- |
|---|
| packaging
|
(noun) the business of packing |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution |
Synonyms:
promotion,
promo,
promotional material,
publicity |
| (noun) material used to make packages |
- |
| packed
|
(adjective) extremely crowed or filled to capacity |
Synonyms:
jam-packed,
jammed |
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| (adjective) pressed together or compressed |
- |
| packer
|
(noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers |
Synonyms:
bagger,
boxer |
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| (noun) a wholesaler in the meat-packing business |
Synonyms:
meat packer |
| (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack |
Synonyms:
backpacker |
| packet
|
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together |
Synonyms:
parcel,
package,
bundle |
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| (noun) (computer science) a message or message fragment |
- |
| (noun) a small package or bundle |
- |
| (noun) a boat for carrying mail |
Synonyms:
mail boat,
mailboat,
packet boat |
| packhorse
|
(noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal |
- |
|---|
| packing
|
(noun) any material used especially to protect something |
Synonyms:
packing material,
wadding |
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| (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box |
Synonyms:
boxing |
| (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back |
Synonyms:
backpacking |
| packinghouse
|
(noun) a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products |
Synonyms:
packing plant |
| packman
|
(noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) |
Synonyms:
hawker,
peddler,
pedlar,
pitchman |
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| packrat
|
(noun) a collector of miscellaneous useless objects |
- |
|---|
| (noun) any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects |
Synonyms:
Neotoma cinerea,
pack rat,
bushytail woodrat,
trade rat |
| packsack
|
(noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder |
Synonyms:
rucksack,
haversack,
knapsack,
back pack,
backpack |
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| packsaddle
|
(noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached |
- |
|---|
| packthread
|
(noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages |
- |
|---|
| pact
|
(noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns |
Synonyms:
accord,
treaty |
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| paczki
|
(noun) A traditional Polish doughnut. |
- |
|---|
| pad
|
(verb) add details to |
Synonyms:
embellish,
blow up,
dramatise,
dramatize,
embroider,
aggrandise,
aggrandize,
lard |
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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud |
Synonyms:
plod,
slog,
footslog,
tramp,
trudge |
| (verb) line or stuff with soft material |
Synonyms:
fill out |
| (verb) add padding to |
Synonyms:
bolster |
| (noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge |
Synonyms:
pad of paper,
tablet |
| (noun) the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) |
- |
| (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp |
Synonyms:
inking pad,
inkpad,
stamp pad |
| (noun) a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort |
- |
| (noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
Synonyms:
launch area,
launch pad,
launching pad,
launchpad |
| (noun) temporary living quarters |
Synonyms:
diggings,
digs,
domiciliation,
lodgings |
| (noun) the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger |
- |
| padauk
|
(noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain |
Synonyms:
Pterocarpus indicus,
padouk,
amboyna |
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| (noun) the wood of any of the padauk trees, used in decorative cabinetwork. |
- |
| padded
|
(adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding |
Synonyms:
cushioned,
cushiony |
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| padder
|
(noun) a highwayman who robs on foot |
Synonyms:
footpad |
|---|
| padding
|
(noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort |
Synonyms:
cushioning |
|---|
| paddle
|
(verb) propel with a paddle |
- |
|---|
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children |
Synonyms:
dabble,
splash around |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water |
- |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps |
Synonyms:
dodder,
waddle,
coggle,
toddle,
totter |
| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking |
Synonyms:
spank,
larrup |
| (verb) stir with a paddle |
- |
| (noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games |
- |
| (noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel |
- |
| (noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board |
- |
| (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat |
Synonyms:
boat paddle |
| paddlefish
|
(noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout |
Synonyms:
duckbill,
Polyodon spathula |
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| paddler
|
(noun) someone paddling a canoe |
Synonyms:
canoeist |
|---|
| paddlewheel
|
(noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat |
Synonyms:
paddle wheel |
|---|
| paddock
|
(noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race |
- |
|---|
| paddy
|
(noun) an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown |
Synonyms:
rice paddy,
paddy field |
|---|
| (noun) rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field |
- |
| paddymelon
|
(noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea |
Synonyms:
pademelon |
|---|
| pademelon
|
(noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea |
Synonyms:
paddymelon |
|---|
| padlock
|
(noun) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut |
- |
|---|
| (verb) fasten with a padlock |
- |
| padouk
|
(noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain |
Synonyms:
padauk,
Pterocarpus indicus,
amboyna |
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| padre
|
(noun) a chaplain in one of the military services |
Synonyms:
Holy Joe,
military chaplain,
sky pilot |
|---|
| padrone
|
(noun) an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy |
- |
|---|
| (noun) an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S. |
- |
| paean
|
(noun) a formal expression of praise |
Synonyms:
panegyric,
pean,
encomium,
eulogy |
|---|
| (noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) |
Synonyms:
pean |
| paederast
|
(noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner |
Synonyms:
pederast,
child molester |
|---|
| paederastic
|
(adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy |
Synonyms:
pederastic |
|---|
| paederasty
|
(noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) |
Synonyms:
pederasty |
|---|
| paediatric
|
(adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children |
Synonyms:
pediatric |
|---|
| paediatrician
|
(noun) a specialist in the care of babies |
Synonyms:
pediatrician,
pediatrist,
baby doctor |
|---|
| paediatrics
|
(noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children |
Synonyms:
pediatric medicine,
pediatrics,
pedology |
|---|
| paedophile
|
(noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children |
Synonyms:
pedophile |
|---|
| paedophilia
|
(noun) a sexual attraction to children |
Synonyms:
pedophilia |
|---|
| paella
|
(noun) saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken |
- |
|---|
| paeony
|
(noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers |
Synonyms:
peony |
|---|
| pagan
|
(adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam |
Synonyms:
heathen,
heathenish,
ethnic |
|---|
| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god |
Synonyms:
infidel,
heathen,
gentile |
| (noun) a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew) |
- |
| (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures |
Synonyms:
hedonist,
pleasure seeker |
| paganise
|
(verb) make pagan in character |
Synonyms:
paganize |
|---|
| paganism
|
(noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism |
Synonyms:
heathenism,
pagan religion |
|---|
| paganize
|
(verb) make pagan in character |
Synonyms:
paganise |
|---|
| page
|
(verb) contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system |
- |
|---|
| (verb) work as a page |
- |
| (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript |
Synonyms:
foliate,
paginate |
| (noun) one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains |
- |
| (noun) a boy who is employed to run errands |
Synonyms:
pageboy |
| (noun) a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings |
- |
| (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood |
Synonyms:
varlet |
| pageant
|
(noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes |
Synonyms:
pageantry |
|---|
| (noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony |
Synonyms:
pageantry |
| pageantry
|
(noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony |
Synonyms:
pageant |
|---|
| (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes |
Synonyms:
pageant |
| pageboy
|
(noun) a boy who is employed to run errands |
Synonyms:
page |
|---|
| (noun) a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward |
- |
| pager
|
(noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged |
Synonyms:
beeper |
|---|
| paginate
|
(verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript |
Synonyms:
page,
foliate |
|---|
| pagination
|
(noun) the system of numbering pages |
Synonyms:
folio,
page number,
paging |
|---|
| paging
|
(noun) calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system) |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the system of numbering pages |
Synonyms:
folio,
page number,
pagination |
| pagoda
|
(noun) an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof |
- |
|---|
| pahautea
|
(noun) evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka |
Synonyms:
mountain pine,
Libocedrus bidwillii |
|---|
| pahoehoe
|
(noun) freely flowing lava |
- |
|---|
| paid
|
(adjective) marked by the reception of pay |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby |
Synonyms:
nonrecreational |
| (adjective) yielding a fair profit |
Synonyms:
paying,
gainful |
| paigle
|
(noun) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel |
Synonyms:
Primula elatior,
oxlip |
|---|
| (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers |
Synonyms:
Primula veris,
cowslip |