cuckoo-flowern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcuckoo-ˌflower.

A name given to various wild flowers which are in bloom when the cuckoo is heard.

a. The Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, a cruciferous plant common in meadows.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers

garden rocket1548

queen's gillyflower1573

cuckoo-flower1578

damask violet1578

dame's-violet1578

rogue's gilliflower1578

wild passerage1578

lady's smock1593

Canterbury bells1597

close-sciences1597

sea stock-gillyflower1597

cardamine1609

melancholic gentleman1629

melancholy gentleman1629

Whitsun gilliflower1656

Hesperis1666

rocket1731

queen's violet1733

queen's July-flower1760

Virginian stock1760

spinka1774

damewort1776

virgin-stock1786

pink1818

sea-stock1849

clown's mustard1861

rock beauty1870

milksile-

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lx. 625 Called..in Englishe, the lesser Watercresse, and Coccow flowers.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. i. 61 Scurvy-grass..resembles that which in England is called Lady's smock, or Cuckow-flower.

1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 38 Each quaintly-folded cuckoopint And silver-paly cuckoo flower.

b. The Ragged Robin, Lychnis Flos-cuculi.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > campions and catchflies

rose campion1530

jagged pink1574

cuckoo-gilliflower1578

flower Constantinople1578

marsh gilliflower1578

wild William1578

crow-flower1597

gardener's delight1597

nonsuch1597

cuckoo-flower1629

fair maid of France1629

meadow pink1660

Bristol Non-such1668

flower of Bristol1672

knight-cross1725

ragged robin1731

fair maid of Kent1813

flower of Jove1840

mullein pink1840

fire pink1848

sticky catchfly1908

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xxxviii. 256 Some call them in English Crowflowers, and Cuckowe flowers, and some call the double hereof, The Faire Maide of France.

1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 239 [Lychnis flos cuculi] Meadow Pinks, Wild Williams, Cuckow Flower, or Ragged Robbins. Anglis.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 227.

c. Also applied locally to Orchis mascula and O. Morio; Red Campion, Lychnis diurna; Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea; the Cuckoo-pint; Wood Sorrel; Wild Hyacinth, and others. See Britten and Holland Plant Names.

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1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xviii. 4 With hor-docks, hemlocke, netles, cookow flowers, Darnell and all the idle weedes that grow, In our sustayning, corne.

1802 W. Wordsworth Foresight Here are daisies..Pansies, and the cuckoo-flower.

1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 208 Where peep the gaping, speckled cuckoo-flowers.

1865 Cornhill Mag. July 34 The orchis is his ‘cuckoo-flower,’ because it blossoms when the cuckoo is first heard.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	cuckoo-flower
释义	cuckoo-flowern. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcuckoo-ˌflower. A name given to various wild flowers which are in bloom when the cuckoo is heard. a. The Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, a cruciferous plant common in meadows. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers garden rocket1548 queen's gillyflower1573 cuckoo-flower1578 damask violet1578 dame's-violet1578 rogue's gilliflower1578 wild passerage1578 lady's smock1593 Canterbury bells1597 close-sciences1597 sea stock-gillyflower1597 cardamine1609 melancholic gentleman1629 melancholy gentleman1629 Whitsun gilliflower1656 Hesperis1666 rocket1731 queen's violet1733 queen's July-flower1760 Virginian stock1760 spinka1774 damewort1776 virgin-stock1786 pink1818 sea-stock1849 clown's mustard1861 rock beauty1870 milksile- 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lx. 625 Called..in Englishe, the lesser Watercresse, and Coccow flowers. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. i. 61 Scurvy-grass..resembles that which in England is called Lady's smock, or Cuckow-flower. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 38 Each quaintly-folded cuckoopint And silver-paly cuckoo flower. b. The Ragged Robin, Lychnis Flos-cuculi. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > campions and catchflies rose campion1530 jagged pink1574 cuckoo-gilliflower1578 flower Constantinople1578 marsh gilliflower1578 wild William1578 crow-flower1597 gardener's delight1597 nonsuch1597 cuckoo-flower1629 fair maid of France1629 meadow pink1660 Bristol Non-such1668 flower of Bristol1672 knight-cross1725 ragged robin1731 fair maid of Kent1813 flower of Jove1840 mullein pink1840 fire pink1848 sticky catchfly1908 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xxxviii. 256 Some call them in English Crowflowers, and Cuckowe flowers, and some call the double hereof, The Faire Maide of France. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 239 [Lychnis flos cuculi] Meadow Pinks, Wild Williams, Cuckow Flower, or Ragged Robbins. Anglis. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 227. c. Also applied locally to Orchis mascula and O. Morio; Red Campion, Lychnis diurna; Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea; the Cuckoo-pint; Wood Sorrel; Wild Hyacinth, and others. See Britten and Holland Plant Names. ΚΠ 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xviii. 4 With hor-docks, hemlocke, netles, cookow flowers, Darnell and all the idle weedes that grow, In our sustayning, corne. 1802 W. Wordsworth Foresight Here are daisies..Pansies, and the cuckoo-flower. 1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 208 Where peep the gaping, speckled cuckoo-flowers. 1865 Cornhill Mag. July 34 The orchis is his ‘cuckoo-flower,’ because it blossoms when the cuckoo is first heard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1578
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