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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 petals
Synonyms:
cuckoo flower; Lychins floscuculi; Lychnis flos-cuculi; ragged robin
Classified under:
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 America
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)