"Bullock's-eye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cow-wheat is so nicknamed from its seed resembling wheat, but being worthless as food for man. The flowers of the Arum maculatum are "bulls and cows;" and in Yorkshire the fruit of Crataegus oxyacantha is bull-horns;—an old name for the horse-leek being bullock's-eye. ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer |
