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noun

Cowslip n. (Bot.)

A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.

In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip.

American cowslip (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West (Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order (Primulaceae) with the English cowslip.

French cowslip (Bot.), bear's-ear (Primula Auricula).

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"Cowslip" Quotes from Famous Books

... snowy frills, Courtly tulips and sweet jonquils, Primrose and cowslip, friends well met With ...

— Many Voices • E. Nesbit

... of the human race—to whom, the more you give of their own free will, the more slaves they will make themselves. In common parlance, we idly confuse captivity with slavery, and are always thinking of the difference between pine-trunks (Ariel in the pine), and cowslip-bells ("in the cowslip-bell I lie"), or between carrying wood and drinking (Caliban's slavery and freedom), instead of noting the far more serious differences between Ariel and Caliban themselves, and the means by which, practically, ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... you talk. I've seen you rope and tie a steer in 42 1/2. If you was to see one now you'd write to the Police Commissioner about it. And these flapdoodle drinks that you inoculate your system with—these little essences of cowslip with acorns in 'em, and paregoric flip—they ain't anyways in assent with the cordiality of manhood. I hate to ...

— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... apricots since early morning. After asking plaintively for the fiftieth time how long it would be before dinner, he finally succumbed to his weariness, and dropping his yellow head, that was like a cowslip ball, in his mother's ...

— A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... grass, a starry daisy, or a sly little cowslip, peeps up here and there, but nothing else disturbs the lawn-like smoothness, save a tiny mound of green moss near the centre of the hollow, shaped ...

— The Fairy Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow

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