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CUCKOO FLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cuckoo flower mean? 

CUCKOO FLOWER (noun)
  The noun CUCKOO FLOWER has 2 senses:

1. a bitter cress of Europe and Americaplay

2. common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petalsplay

  Familiarity information: CUCKOO FLOWER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CUCKOO FLOWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A bitter cress of Europe and America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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

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


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