- colorful rice - Crocus - Golden product of the crocus - Hare Krishna robe colour - Orange colourant used in odious affront - Yellow spice - A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue
flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
- An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the
flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard,
or false, saffron. - The dried flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius. - A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin (b).
- Plant type - Spring bulb - Spring flower - yellow or white spring flower that grows from a bulb - A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising
separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of
spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms
in the autumn. - A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a
red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or
colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing
powder.
- A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the
poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in
jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure
warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.