Primrose
Primrose may refer to:
Botany
- Primulaceae, a family of flowering plants
- Primula vulgaris, commonly known as the primrose (also called the common primrose or English primrose)
- Oenothera, commonly known as evening primrose, a plant genus
- Onagraceae, commonly known as the willowherb family or evening primrose family
Places
- Britain
- Primrose Hill in London
- South Africa
- United States
- Primrose, Alaska
- Primrose, Kentucky
- Primrose, Nebraska
- Primrose, Ohio
- Primrose, Rhode Island
- Primrose, Wisconsin, a town
- Primrose (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
People
- Archibald Primrose – various people
- Francis Ward Primrose (1785–1860), M.P. for Stirling District of Burghs
- George Primrose, member of the blackface song-and-dance team Primrose and West
- Vice-Admiral George Anson Primrose (1849–1930)
- Gilbert E. Primrose (1848–1935), Scottish international footballer
- Sir Henry Primrose (1846–1923), Scottish civil servant who became Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue
- William Primrose, a violist
- Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery
- Earl of Rosebery
- Laird of Burnbrae
- Primrose, Katniss's sister [role played by Willow Shields] in The Hunger Games movie trilogy
Other
- Primrose (musical), a musical comedy
- Primrose Brook, a tributary of the Passaic River
- Primrose Day, the anniversary of the death of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli
- Primrose League, an organisation founded in 1883 to promote Toryism
- Primrose High School, an 11-19 comprehensive school in Leeds, UK
- Primrose path, an idiom in the English language
- Operation Primrose, the code name later given to the capture of German submarine U-110
- Primrose, a video game for the Nintendo DSi
- HMS Primrose (1807)
- HMS Primrose was a Flower-class corvette commissioned 15 July 1940. It was sold in 1946 and scrapped in 1953.
- MV Primrose, A freight and passenger ferry.
- MV Primrose, Hong Kong freighter grounded on North Sentinel Island.
See also
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- All pages beginning with "Primrose"
- Primrose Path (disambiguation)
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