crocus sativus

English Thesaurus

1. Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	crocus,
definition	:	any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	saffron,
definition	:	dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus (noun.food)