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Definition of Cuckoo flower

1. Noun. A bitter cress of Europe and America.

2. Noun. Common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuckoo Flower

cuckoldom cuckoldoms cuckoldries cuckoldry cuckolds cuckoldy cuckoo cuckoo's nest cuckoo-bumblebee cuckoo-dove

cuckoo-doves cuckoo bread cuckoo clock cuckoo clocks cuckoo dove cuckoo flower (current term) cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs cuckoo sign cuckoo spit cuckoobud

cuckoobuds cuckooed cuckooflower cuckooflowers cuckooing cuckooings cuckoopint cuckoopints cuckoos cuckquean

Literary usage of Cuckoo flower

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"On turning to the word “ Cardamine, “ I find it thus defined : “ In botany, the plant lady's smock, called also the cuckoo-flower and meadow-cress. ..."

2. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"Some of the old herbalists give the name cuckoo-flower to the lady-smock, ... The cuckoo's name is given to many flowers: we have the cuckoo-flower, ..."

3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... which, when the seeds are ripe, curl up with an elastic spring from the base upwards, thus scattering the seed. The Cuckoo-flower or Lady's-smock (C. ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"cuckoo flower. Cardamine Pratensis. 11 had the satisfaction of spying out among the primroses my first cuckoo flower of the season—the lady-smock of ..."

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