Usually means: Spring-flowering plant, colorful, bulbous.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. crocus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Crocus, crocus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crocus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crocus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crocus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crocus, crocus: Wordnik
  7. crocus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crocus: Wiktionary
  9. crocus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crocus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crocus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crocus: Dictionary.com
  13. crocus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crocus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CROCUS, Crocus (mythology), Crocus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crocus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crocus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crocus: Rhymezone
  19. Crocus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crocus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Crocus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. crocus: FreeDictionary.org
  23. crocus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. crocus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. crocus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crocus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. crocus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. crocus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CROCUS: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crocus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crocus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
noun:  Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
noun:  (inorganic chemistry, obsolete) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A fraudulent doctor; a quack.
noun:  (Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) Burlap.

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