thrum-eyed

adj

(Botany) (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma on a short style below the anthers, which lie in the mouth of the corolla on big stamens. Compare pin-eyed

[C19: from thrum², because of the ring of anthers visible at the neck of the corolla]

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