A poisonous lilac-flowered autumn crocus of Europe and North Africa, a source of the drug colchicine.
秋水仙。亦称NAKED LADIES
Colchicum autumnale, family Liliaceae
Also called naked ladies
Example sentencesExamples
The meadow saffron (Colchicum autumnale Pleniforum) in the photograph is looking a little worse for wear because Good Golly Miss Molly and her sibling partners in crime sat on it.
You can take a little bit of arsenic every day for ten years, but what happens if someone slips some meadow saffron in your polenta?
Also known as meadow saffron, they look good naturalised in turf, in the rock garden, at the front of a border or under an apple tree.
Species found in the meadows include great burnet, meadow foxtail, red fescue, meadow saffron, narrow-leaved water-dropwort, mousetail, and the unusual small-flowered winter-cress on bare banks of the Severn.
Definition of meadow saffron in US English:
meadow saffron
nounˈmedō ˌsafrən
A poisonous autumn crocus that produces its flowers, usually lilac, in the autumn while leafless. Native to Europe and North Africa, it is a source of the drug colchicine.
秋水仙。亦称NAKED LADIES
Colchicum autumnale, family Liliaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Species found in the meadows include great burnet, meadow foxtail, red fescue, meadow saffron, narrow-leaved water-dropwort, mousetail, and the unusual small-flowered winter-cress on bare banks of the Severn.
You can take a little bit of arsenic every day for ten years, but what happens if someone slips some meadow saffron in your polenta?
The meadow saffron (Colchicum autumnale Pleniforum) in the photograph is looking a little worse for wear because Good Golly Miss Molly and her sibling partners in crime sat on it.
Also known as meadow saffron, they look good naturalised in turf, in the rock garden, at the front of a border or under an apple tree.