Meaning of Cowslip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
2. Any of several other plants related or similar in appearance
3. Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip and rila cowslip
4. Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant cowslip and Tibetan cowslip
5. Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as Himalayan cowslip and Sikkim cowslip
6. marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, a plant in the buttercup family, growing in wet, boggy locations.
   Canada, US, regional
7. Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort
8. Ellipsis of cowslip tea: a kind of green tea; an herbal tea made with cowslip flowers.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“Where the bee sucks, there suck I: / In a cowslip's bell I lie;”

“Here is spring were celandine, marsh marigold, wind-flower, primrose, cowslip and dog's violet.”

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