cro|cus

cro|cus
cro|cus1 «KROH kuhs», noun, plural cro|cus|es or cro|ci.
1. a small plant that blooms in the early spring or fall and has white, yellow, or purple flowers. Crocuses grow from a bulblike corm and belong to the iris family.
2. the flower.
3. a deep-yellow color; saffron.
4. a polishing powder consisting of iron oxide: »

Today's enlightened polishing is done judiciously, by hand, with jeweler's crocus, the finest abrasive known (Emory Cook).

5. any one of various yellow or red powders formerly obtained from metals by calcination; colcothar.
╂[< Latin crocus < Greek krókos, perhaps < Semitic (compare Hebrew karkōm)]
cro|cus2 «KROH kuhs», noun.
1. coarse fabric, such as burlap, used especially for making sacks.
2. plural -cus|es. a sack made of this fabric.
╂[origin unknown]

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