Polyanthus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of a group of hybrid garden primroses having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The oxlip, Primula elatior, so called because the peduncle bears a many-flowered umbel.
  • n. A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus.
  • Word Usage
    "It was driven by his gardener, and filled to overflowing with azaleas and polyanthus, and great bunches of irises and tulips and freesias."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    primrose    Primula   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    oxlip    narcissus