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Cuckoo flower   /kˈəkˌu flˈaʊər/   Listen
Cuckoo flower

noun
1.
A bitter cress of Europe and America.  Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckooflower, lady's smock, meadow cress.
2.
Common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals.  Synonyms: Lychins floscuculi, Lychnis flos-cuculi, ragged robin.





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"Cuckoo flower" Quotes from Famous Books



... in May they were extraordinarily abundant here, happily coursing round and round my meadow, and chasing each other in the sunshine. The Orange Tip is quite innocent of designs upon the homely cabbage, the food-plant of the caterpillar being Cardamine pratensis (the cuckoo flower), which Shakespeare speaks of so ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory


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