crocusses

crocusses

1. plural of crocus
   • 1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter XVI, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 294:

     The sun was up cheerily; the fresh pleasant green of spring had stolen, more like a tinted atmosphere, than in the guise of foliage, over tree and bush; field flowers and crocusses peeped from under the mossy turf.

   • 1967, Bruce Ramsey, “Looking Both Ways”, in Britannia: The Story of a Mine, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 125:

     In the springtime, when the deep snow has given away, crocusses and snowdrops bloom, but there is nobody there to admire their beauty.

   • 2002 November, Mary E[leanor] Gillham, “Western Outliers; Fairwater, Victoria & Thompsons’ Parks”, in A Natural History of Cardiff – Exploring along the River Taff: Being an Account of the Animal and Plant Life in and around our Capital City, Caerphilly: Lazy Cat Publishing, →ISBN, part III (West Bank, Radyr, and to the City Centre), page 335:

     The drifts of flowering snowdrops might have been matched elsewhere in Cardiff, but it is doubtful if the crocusses were, this early. Orange ones were at prime on a grassy slope and pale mauve ‘species’ crocusses, usually the first to appear, were in full spate among the slender leaf tufts.