Cowslip Definition

kouslĭp
noun
A European primrose (Primula veris) with yellow or purple flowers.
Webster's New World

Marsh marigold.

Webster's New World

Shooting star.

Webster's New World

Virginia cowslip.

Webster's New World

(North America, regional) A plant in the buttercup family, Caltha palustris, growing in wet, boggy locations.

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Noun

Singular:
cowslip
Plural:
cowslips

Origin of Cowslip

  • From Middle English cowslyppe, from Old English cūslyppe (“cowslip”), from cū (“cow”) + slyppe (“paste, viscid substance”), related to Old English slūpan (“to slip, glide, move softly”). Compare oxlip.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English cowslyppe from Old English cūslyppe cū cow gwou- in Indo-European roots slypa slime sleubh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cowslip Sentence Examples

  • The leaves form a radical rosette as in Primula (primrose, cowslip, &c.), or there is a well-developed aerial stem which is erect, as in species of Lysimachia, or creeping, as in Lysimachia Nummularia (creeping jenny or money-wort).

  • The flowers are solitary in the leaf-axils as in pimpernel, money-wort, &c., or umbelled as in primrose, where the umbel is sessile, and cowslip, where it is stalked, or in racemes or spikes as in species of Lysimachia.

  • Contracted or shortened form (Umbel), Cowslip, Astrantia.

  • As well as marram grass there are a lot of flowering plants such as ladies bedstraw, northern marsh orchid and cowslip.

  • The first cuckoo Do you write down when you first hear a Cuckoo or see a cowslip each year?

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