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BUTTER-AND-EGGS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America

Synonyms:

butter-and-eggs; devil's flax; Linaria vulgaris; toadflax; wild snapdragon

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("butter-and-eggs" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butter-and-eggs"):

blue toadflax; Linaria canadensis; old-field toadflax (North American plant having racemes of blue-violet flowers)

Holonyms ("butter-and-eggs" is a member of...):

genus Linaria; Linaria (genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon)

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