- [countable] a small wild plant that produces pale yellow flowers in springTopics Plants and treesc2
- (also primrose yellow)[uncountable] a pale yellow colourMore Like This Colour compoundsColour compoundsTopics Colours and Shapesc2
Word Originlate Middle English: compare with Old French primerose and medieval Latin prima rosa, literally ‘first rose’.
Idioms
See primrose in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe primrose path
- (literary) an easy life that is full of pleasure but that causes you harm in the end
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