Any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated.

Roget 436: yellow etc. adj.; or.    [Pigments] gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment^†, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin^†; xanthein [Chem], xanthin^†; zaofulvin^†.    crocus, saffron, topaz; xanthite^†; yolk.    jaundice; London fog^†; yellowness etc. adj.; icterus^†; xantho-cyanopia^†, xanthopsia [Med.].    ... show more

Dutch: krokus