The crocus is a forerunner of spring.
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Crocus
//ˈkɹoʊ.kəs//
Synonyms for "crocus" (10 found)
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4 entriesrelated to
16 entriesTranslations
44 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κρόκος noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Armenian
1 entries- քրքմածաղիկ noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Bulgarian
2 entries- минзухар noun (plant of genus Crocus)
- шафран noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Catalan
1 entries- crocus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Czech
2 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
- šafrán noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Danish
1 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Dutch
1 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Esperanto
1 entries- krokuso noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Finnish
2 entries- krookus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
- sahrami noun (plant of genus Crocus)
French
1 entries- crocus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Galician
2 entries- azafrán noun (plant of genus Crocus)
- sasafrán noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Georgian
1 entries- ქურქუმა noun (plant of genus Crocus)
German
1 entries- Krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Greek
1 entries- κρόκος noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Hebrew
1 entries- כַּרְכֹּם noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Icelandic
1 entries- krókus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Ido
1 entries- krokuso noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Irish
1 entries- cróch noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Italian
1 entries- croco noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Japanese
1 entries- クロッカス noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Latin
1 entries- crocus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Lithuanian
1 entries- krokas noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Macedonian
1 entries- качунка noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- pîvok noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Persian
1 entries- کروکوس noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Polish
2 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
- szafran noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Portuguese
1 entries- croco noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Romanian
1 entries- brândușă noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Russian
2 entries- кро́кус noun (plant of genus Crocus)
- шафра́н noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Slovene
2 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
- žafran noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Spanish
1 entries- croco noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Swahili
1 entries- karkomu noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Swedish
1 entries- krokus noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Turkish
1 entries- çiğdem noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Volapük
1 entries- krok noun (plant of genus Crocus)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Other foreign terms have become so thoroughly Anglicised as to adopt English plurals, and it is sometimes difficult to decide whether the English or the original foreign form is the more correct. None but a pedant would speak of ‘the chori of an opera,’ ‘the croci in a garden,’ or ‘the dogmata of the church;’ […]
Source: wiktionary
Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.
Source: wiktionary
The characteristics of the crocus or vagabond quack doctor appear to find a sardonically appropriate origin in the Erse cruach-bhas, a bloody death.
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