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Kingcup

noun
1.
Swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups.  Synonyms: Caltha palustris, cowslip, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon.
2.
Any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus.  Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup.





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"Kingcup" Quotes from Famous Books



... with bonfires and resounded to horns on the 11th of May (May-eve, Old Style). "May flowers" were put at the doors of houses and cattle-sheds, and these were not hawthorn blossoms, but the flowers of the kingcup, or marsh marigold. Crosses made of sprays of mountain ash were worn the same night, and they, the bonfires and May flowers, were reckoned charms against "wizards, witches, enchanters, and ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing
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... you out, O come you out, Lily, and lavender, and lime; The kingcup swings his golden bell, And plumpy cherries ...
— Songs of Childhood • Walter de la Mare
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