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cow·slip (-slip′)

noun

  1. a European primrose (Primula veris) with yellow or purple flowers
  2. ☆ marsh marigold
  3. ☆ shooting star (sense )
  4. ☆ Virginia cowslip

Etymology: ME couslippe < OE cuslyppe, lit., cow dung < cu, cow + slyppe, paste: see slip

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cowslip Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • include: Spring has now arrived and many wildflowers can now be seen, including cowslips, lesser celandine and lady's smock.

Adjective modifier

  • long-styled: Long-styled cowslips: 10: 70: : 100: 178: : 100: 34.

Modifies a noun

  • wine: These were the flowers people used for cowslip wine.

Preposition: in

  • meadow: The spring flowers are now coming out thick and fast a magnificent display of Cowslips in the meadows and Primroses in the hedgerows.
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cowslip quotes

Cowslip and shad-blow, flaked like tethered foam Around bared teeth of stallions, bloomed that spring When first I read thy lines, rife as the loam Of prairies, yet like breakers cliffward leaping!

-Crane, (Harold) Hart

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