Cowslip
Definitions
- A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
- Any of several other plants related or similar in appearance
- Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip and rila cowslip
- Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant cowslip and Tibetan cowslip
- Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as Himalayan cowslip and Sikkim cowslip
- marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, a plant in the buttercup family, growing in wet, boggy locations.
- Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort
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Ellipsis of cowslip tea: a kind of green tea; an herbal tea made with cowslip flowers. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Equivalents
15 more languages
العربيةزهر الحقل
Българскииглика
Catalàcucut
Cymraeggwefus y fuwch
Suomikevätesikko
Gaeilgebainne bó bleacht
Հայերենգնարբուկ
日本語黄花の九輪桜
한국어황화구륜초
Македонскипетопрст
Nederlandsgulden sleutelbloem
Polskipierwiosnek lekarski
Românăciuboțica-cucului
Svenskagullviva
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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See also
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