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pin-eyed
adjective
- (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma in the mouth of the corolla, on the end of a long style with the stamens lower in the tube Compare thrum-eyed
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Like the common primrose, the primula exhibits both pin-eyed and thrum-eyed varieties.
From Project Gutenberg
The former occur in the so-called thrum-eyed primroses (fig. 61), the latter in the “pin-eyed.”
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They have been long known to children and gardeners, who call them thrum-eyed and pin-eyed.
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