cowslip
noun/ˈkaʊ.slɪp/
Etymology 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.
7 senses
- 1A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
- 2Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip…
- 3Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant…
- 4Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as…
- 5marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, a plant in the…
- 6Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort
- 7Ellipsis of cowslip tea: a kind of green tea; an herbal…
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A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
- Where the bee sucks, there suck I: / In a cowslip's bell I lie;1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- Here is spring were celandine, marsh marigold, wind-flower, primrose, cowslip and dog's violet.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13:
› Any of several other plants related or…
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Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip and rila cowslip
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Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant cowslip and Tibetan cowslip
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Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as Himalayan cowslip and Sikkim cowslip
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Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of cowslip tea: a kind of green tea; an herbal tea made with cowslip flowers.
- Synonyms
- paigle, herb Peter, marsh marigold, kingcup, mayflower, mollyblobs, pollyblobs, horse blob
- Derived terms
- blue cowslip, common cowslip, cowslipped, cowslip primrose, giant cowslip, Himalayan cowslip, Japanese cowslip, mealy cowslip, Rila cowslip, royal cowslip, Sikkim cowslip, Tibetan cowslip, Virginia cowslip