1bot.primrose, Primula vulgaris, plant with pale yellow or pink flowers:
(
MS: s.xii2
)
[A]ccipe [...] ache, primorele, fevrefuie
Pop Med 65.8
(
s.xiii2/3;
MS: s.xiiim
)
La primerole seit triblee Par sei sur la verge posee
Nov Chir ANTS 828
(
c.1290;
MS: s.xivin
)
coyller primerole Pur fere chapeus a clers d’escole Ke par bost de frivole
(M.E. of ydel words) [...] Sevent attrere femme fole
BIBB ROTH (T) 462
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
La lievre en qui ‘Jhesu’ se vole Vaint en odor la premerole
Ross ANTS 3814
2bot.cowslip, Primula veris, herbaceous plant of the primrose family with yellow flowers:
(
s.xiii2;
MS: c.1400
)
Primula veris, prima rosa, gallice et anglice primerole
Alph 146
(
MS: c.1340
)
Herba paralisis: (B2) gallice primerole, anglice couslop
Plant Names 137
3bot.pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis, plant with red, purplish-red or white flowers:
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
) pimpinella: (D*) primerole
(var.
(L: s.xiii) premeroel;
(C: s.xiiiex) pimpernele
)
TLL ii 142.76