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单词 cuckoo-bud
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cuckoo-budn.

A name of some plant. Shakespeare has been variously supposed to refer to the buttercup, marsh-marigold, and cowslip; Clare perhaps meant an Orchis, or the Cuckoo-pint in bud.
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1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 881 When Dasies pied, and Violets blew, And Cuckow-budds of yellow hew: And Ladi-smockes all siluer white, Do paint the Meadowes with delight.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 137 'Neath the weaving thorn, Where the pouch'd-lipp'd cuckoo-bud From its snug retreat was torn.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 133 Full many a blue-bell flower and cuckoo-bud.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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