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    CUCKOO FLOWER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petalsplay

    Synonyms:

    cuckoo flower; Lychins floscuculi; Lychnis flos-cuculi; ragged robin

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("cuckoo flower" is a kind of...):

    catchfly; lychnis (mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A bitter cress of Europe and Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    Cardamine pratensis; cuckoo flower; cuckooflower; lady's smock; meadow cress

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("cuckoo flower" is a kind of...):

    bitter cress; bittercress (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)

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