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- noun Plural form of
crocus .
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Examples
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(My spillchukker can't cope with croci, which is the expression that my mother would have insisted upon.)
Woolgathering 2009
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She watched the ground become iron once more, she saw the frost steal upon the croci, puddles freeze on brick paths.
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Don't talk to me about global warming, sparrows have attacked the crocuses (or croci?) in my garden, has the whole world gone weather mad?
Global Freezing Panic ! Newmania 2007
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The Colchicums are often confounded with the autumn-flowering species of croci, which they much resemble when in bloom; the similarity is the more marked by the absence, from both, of their leaves in that season, otherwise the leaves would prove to be the clearest mark of difference.
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Notwithstanding their dead appearance in winter, a capital suggestion occurred to me by an accidental mixture of croci with the Phlox.
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The flowers appear before the leaves, and may, at the first glance, be taken for lilac-coloured croci.
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You must come over in the spring some time, and see the tulips and croci and hyacinths here.
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Corni contra croci good means against badd, homes to crosses.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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It's been a long, cold winter, and the teeny weeny crocuses croci? now popping up their little blue heads in the park are very welcome indeed.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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On the mainland, and especially in urban heat islands, spring often seems to arrive quite early; but not so much here, although early snowdrops and croci have been blooming for over a month in favored Riviera-like spots around Martha's Vineyard.
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