Noun
A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.
A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. George Meredith
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it. Robert Benchley
Another is the "Mongra" or "Lacha" saffron of Kashmir (Crocus sativus 'Cashmirianus'), which is among the most difficult for consumers to obtain. Source: Internet
Crocus, Iridaceae), endemic to Elba Island (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy), Nordic Journal of Botany, 29: 6-13. Source: Internet
Brian Mathew, Gitte Petersen & Ole Seberg, A reassessment of Crocus based on molecular analysis, The Plantsman (N. Source: Internet
Gitte Petersen, Ole Seberg, Sarah Thorsøe, Tina Jørgensen & Brian Mathew: A phylogeny of the genus Crocus (Iridaceae) based on sequence data from five plastid regions. Source: Internet