crowflower

noun

crowflower

noun

Etymology From crow + flower?

1

Obsolete A kind of campion.

  • There with fantastic garlands did she come / Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

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