Definition of Indian crocus

1. Noun. Any of several dwarf orchids of the genus Pleione bearing one or two solitary white or pink to magenta or occasionally yellow flowers with slender stalks.

Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Pleione, Pleione

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Crocus

Indian burn
Indian burns
Indian capital
Indian carp
Indian chickweed
Indian chief
Indian chieftain
Indian chocolate
Indian cholera
Indian club
Indian cobra
Indian coral tree
Indian corn
Indian cress
Indian crocus
Indian currant
Indian elephant
Indian elephants
Indian fig
Indian figs
Indian file
Indian flap
Indian ginger
Indian giver
Indian givers
Indian giving
Indian grackle
Indian gum
Indian hemp

Literary usage of Indian crocus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Carotinoids and Related Pigments: The Chromolipoids by Leroy Sheldon Palmer (1922)
"... flavones which are found in the petals and pollen grains of the Indian crocus (Crocus sativus), which dissolve in concentrated sulphuric and nitric ..."

2. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"The Curcuma. sometimes called the indian crocus, furnishes from its root the turmeric imported from the East Indies ; it is remarkable for the peculiar ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1886)
"... or "indian crocus," now included here, are much grown for their beauty. See Orchid Album, t. 54, 68, 143. For species, see Gard. Chron., 1883, xix., 46, ..."

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