CROCUS Synonyms

• a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

• reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• produce or yield flowers

• plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

• muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye

• diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening

• any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated

• a pale purple color

• of a pale purple color

• any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

• any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors

• Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food

• dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus

• a shade of yellow tinged with orange

• any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower

• any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

• a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

• of a color intermediate between red and blue