Primrose
Encyclopedia
Botany
- PrimulaceaePrimulaceaePrimulaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 24 genera, including some favorite garden plants and wildflowers. It is also known as the primrose family.- Genera :...
, a family of flowering plants - Primula vulgarisPrimula vulgarisPrimula vulgaris is a species of Primula native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa , and southwest Asia...
, commonly known as the Primrose (also called the Common Primrose or English Primrose) - OenotheraOenotheraOenothera is a Genus of about 125 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to North and South America. It is the type genus of the family Onagraceae, the Evening Primrose Family. Common names include evening-primrose, suncups, and sundrops.The species vary in...
, commonly known as Evening Primrose, a plant genus - OnagraceaeOnagraceaeOnagraceae, also known as the Willowherb family or Evening Primrose family, are a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 640-650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 20-24 genera...
, commonly known as the Willowherb family or Evening Primrose family
Places
United States- Primrose, AlaskaPrimrose, AlaskaIn the CDP the population was spread out with 34.4% under the age of 18, 1.1% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 28.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 93.8 males...
- Primrose, NebraskaPrimrose, NebraskaPrimrose is a village in Boone County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 69 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Primrose is located at ....
- Primrose, Rhode IslandPrimrose, Rhode IslandPrimrose is a village in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States. The village is located in the area around Greenville Rhode and the Providence Pike. The village takes its name from the Primrose railroad station which existed on Greenville Road for the Providence and Springfield Railroad...
- Primrose, WisconsinPrimrose, WisconsinPrimrose is a town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 682 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Primrose is located in the town.-Geography:...
, a town- Primrose (community), WisconsinPrimrose (community), WisconsinPrimrose is an unincorporated community located in the town of Primrose, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States....
, an unincorporated community
- Primrose (community), Wisconsin
People
- Archibald PrimroseArchibald Primrose (disambiguation)Archibald Primrose may refer to:* Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington * Archibald Primrose, 2nd Viscount of Rosebery , Viscount of Primrose* Archibald Primrose, 1st Earl of Rosebery...
– various people - Francis Ward Primrose (1785–1860), M.P. for Stirling District of BurghsStirling Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)Stirling Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1918. The constituency comprised the burghs of Stirling in Stirlingshire, Dunfermline, and Inverkeithing in Fife, Queensferry, in Linlithgowshire , and Culross, which...
- George Primrose, member of the blackface song-and-dance team Primrose and WestPrimrose and WestPrimrose and West was the name of a blackface song-and-dance team made up of partners George Primrose and William H. "Billy" West. They later went into the business of minstrel troupe ownership with a refined, high-class approach that signaled the final stage in the development of minstrelsy as a...
- Vice-Admiral George Anson Primrose (1849–1930)
- Gilbert E. PrimroseGilbert E. PrimroseGilbert Edward Primrose was a Scottish amateur sportsman who made one appearance for the Scottish football XI against England in the representative match played in February 1871...
(1848–1935), Scottish international footballer - Sir Henry PrimroseHenry PrimroseSir Henry William Primrose K.C.B., C.S.I., I.S.O., P.C. was a Scottish civil servant. He joined the Treasury in 1869, served as private secretary to the Viceroy of India from 1880 to 1884 and to Gladstone in 1886. He was secretary of the Office of Works from 1887 to 1895...
(1846–1923), Scottish civil servant who became Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue - William PrimroseWilliam PrimroseWilliam Primrose CBE was a Scottish violist and teacher.-Biography:Primrose was born in Glasgow and studied violin initially. In 1919 he moved to study at the then Guildhall School of Music in London. On the urging of the accompanist Ivor Newton, Primrose moved to Belgium to study under Eugène...
, a violist - Hannah Primrose, Countess of RoseberyHannah Primrose, Countess of RoseberyHannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery was the daughter of Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, née Cohen...
- Earl of RoseberyEarl of RoseberyEarl of Rosebery is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for Archibald Primrose, 1st Viscount of Rosebery, with remainder to his issue male and female successively...
- Laird of BurnbraeLaird of BurnbraeLaird of Burnbrae was a hereditary title in Scotland that was held by several generations in the Primrose family. The Lands of Burnbrae was situated near Kincardine, and has since been joined with Kincardine....
- Primrose Larkin, a character on the British television show, "The Darling Buds of MayThe Darling Buds of MayThe Darling Buds of May is a British comedy drama which was first broadcast between 1991 and 1993 produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network. It is set in an idyllic rural 1950s Kent, among a large, boisterous family. The three series were based on the novels by H. E. Bates. Originally...
" - Primrose Everdeen, a character in "The Hunger GamesThe Hunger GamesThe Hunger Games is a first person young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic. It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world...
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Other
- Primrose (musical)Primrose (musical)Primrose is a musical in three acts with a book by Guy Bolton and George Grossmith Jr., lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. It centers on a writer whose story-within-a-story forms the basis of the plot. It was written expressly for the London stage, where it...
, a musical comedy - Primrose BrookPrimrose BrookPrimrose Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River located in the Jockey Hollow section of the Morristown National Historical Park of northern New Jersey. Arising near Post House Rd in Harding, Primrose Brook flows South South East through Great Swamp to where it meets up with Great Brook in...
, a tributary of the Passaic River - Primrose DayPrimrose DayPrimrose Day is the anniversary of the death of British statesman and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, on 19 April 1881. The primrose was his favourite flower and Queen Victoria would often send him bunches of them from Windsor and Osborne House. She sent a wreath of...
, a holiday in the United Kingdom - Primrose LeaguePrimrose LeagueThe Primrose League was an organisation for spreading Conservative principles in Great Britain. It was founded in 1883 and active until the mid 1990s...
, an organisation founded in 1883 to promote Toryism - Primrose High SchoolPrimrose High SchoolThe Co-operative Academy of Leeds is a comprehensive school in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The school is part of the Central Leeds Learning Federation along with City of Leeds School and Shakespeare Primary School, which means they share an executive head teacher and a board of governors.The...
, an 11-19 comprehensive school in Leeds, UK - Primrose PathPrimrose PathTo be "led down the primrose path" is an idiom suggesting that one is being deceived or led astray, often by a hypocrite. The primrose path also refers to someone living a life of luxury apparently linking primroses to libertine indulgence....
, an idiom in the English language - Operation Primrose, the code name later given to the capture of German submarine U-110