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Definition of Scarlet cup
1. Noun. A discomycete that is a harbinger of spring; the fruiting body is thin and tough and saucer-shaped (about the size of quarter to a half dollar) with a deep bright red upper surface and a whitish exterior.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarlet Cup
Literary usage of Scarlet cup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"Tubercles scarlet: cup entire, knotted: stems very much branched : branches
cylindrical. ... Tubercles scarlet; cup grey green, shorter than the leaves; ..."
2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1812)
"Heaths near Charlton and Woolwich. Jan.—Feb. DILL. L. Tubercles scarlet : cup
simple, greenish grey, ... scarlet cup Lichen. Common on heaths. Oct.—April. ..."
3. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"We know of no especial healing virtue contained in the seed or leaves of our
beautiful scarlet cup; but it charms the eye and delights us, and that is God's ..."
4. Ye Narcissus Or Daffodyl Flowere, Containing Hys Historie and Culture, & C by Peter Barr, Frederick William Burbidge (1884)
"... large primrose perianth changing to white, large conspicuously stained
orange-scarlet cup, remarkably showy and distinct. L. CUPID (stellatus), perianth ..."
5. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants: Containing Descriptions of the Hardiest by John Weathers (1901)
"The form called HE Buxton has white segments and a bright orange-scarlet cup.
Culture etc. as above, p. 894. N. bicolor.—A distinct and beautiful form of N. ..."
6. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1852)
"... make a little ball of drab Berlin wool, or cotton wool covered with drab silk,
about the size of a young green pea ; place it in the scarlet cup, ..."
7. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1833)
"... not prepared with a lengthened history of its virtues in curing the hooping
cough ! A still more beautiful specimen is the scarlet cup Lichen (Lichen ..."
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