Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A perennial herb (Cardamine pratensis) in the mustard family, native to the northern temperate regions and having pinnate leaves and pink, purple, or sometimes white flowers.
- noun The ragged robin plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old works, the ragged-robin, Lychnis Flos-cuculi.
- noun Now, more generally, the lady's-smock, Cardamine pratensis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A species of Cardamine (
Cardamine pratensis ), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Either of two
flowering plants
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bitter cress of Europe and America
- noun common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
- noun a bitter cress of Europe and America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the association of its time of blooming with the cuckoo's spring call.]
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Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls.
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