GOLDEN CUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does golden cup mean? 

• GOLDEN CUP (noun)
  The noun GOLDEN CUP has 1 sense:

1. native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage

  Familiarity information: GOLDEN CUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDEN CUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

golden cup; Hunnemania fumariifolia; Mexican tulip poppy

Hypernyms ("golden cup" is a kind of...):

poppy (annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers)

Holonyms ("golden cup" is a member of...):

genus Hunnemania; Hunnemannia (one species: golden cup)

 Context examples 

She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at a draught.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then she was so thirsty that she got down, and knelt over the little brook, and drank; for she was frightened, and dared not bring out her golden cup; and she wept and said, Alas! what will become of me?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

One day, as they were riding along by a brook, the princess began to feel very thirsty: and she said to her maid, Pray get down, and fetch me some water in my golden cup out of yonder brook, for I want to drink.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As soon as the time came when he was to declare the secret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listening behind the door to hear what he would say.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then all rode farther on their journey, till the day grew so warm, and the sun so scorching, that the bride began to feel very thirsty again; and at last, when they came to a river, she forgot her maid’s rude speech, and said, Pray get down, and fetch me some water to drink in my golden cup.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)