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Definition of Codlins-and-cream
1. Noun. Plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codlins-and-cream
Literary usage of Codlins-and-cream
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Weeds and wild flowers: their uses, legends, and literature by Caroline Catharine Wilkinson (1858)
"The " codlins and cream," which takes its name from the nature of the fragrance
sent forth on rubbing the top shoots, is the great hairy willow- herb (E. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Adventive or naturalized from Europe. English names, codlins-and-cream, fiddle-grass.
Apple-, gooseberry- or cherry-pie [smell]. June-Sept. 2. ..."
3. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by J[ohn] Drummond Robertson (1890)
"... or CODLINS and CREAM. Epilobium hirsutum. L. [Britten & Holland.] COO-TER.
vb. To coo, of the pigeon. [Hund, of Berk.] COLLEGE. The older inhabitants of ..."
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