Crossword clues for kingcup
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuckoobud \Cuck"oo*bud"\ (k??k"??-b?d`), n. (Bot.)
A species of Ranunculus ( Ranunculus bulbosus); -- called
also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.
--Shak.
Buttercup \But"ter*cup`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly Ranunculus bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A local name for various species of buttercup, or for the marsh marigold, ''Caltha palustris''.
WordNet
n. swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups [syn: marsh marigold, meadow bright, May blob, cowslip, water dragon, Caltha palustris]
any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus [syn: buttercup, butterflower, butter-flower, crowfoot, goldcup]
Usage examples of "kingcup".
The cloth is to keep the dust and sun from spoiling the flowers--the rich golden kingcups and the pale anemones trained about two hoops, one within the other.
Rabbits twitched moist, velvet noses and laid their ears along their backs but did not run away when they saw the barefoot children go by and Emile pointed out to Madeline how a wise toad, squatting meditatively among the kingcups, must have a jewel in his head because bright beams darted out through his eyes, as though a cold fire burned inside his head.
He told me how the wise toad who squats among the kingcups by the stream in summer has a very precious jewel in his head.
And for all that he wore a garland of gold that the high Muses gave him, a garland of kingcups soft and yellow on his head, yet fashioned of pure gold and by whom but the Muses, yet did they stone him in the Golden Town.
Even the mistress herself, so wise at the outset, finally flung prudence to the winds, and skirmished through the coppices with enthusiasm equal to that of her pupils, lured from the pathway by the glimpses of kingcups, or the pursuit of a peacock butterfly.
There grew a number of great kingcups round the brim, with their flowers like glistening gold, and with cool thick stalks and fresh leaves.
Rushy Pool with a few kingcups still left, and his meadows, and his sleek violet-eyed cattle.