cuckoopint

American

[koo-koo-pahynt, kook-oo-] / ˈku kuˌpaɪnt, ˈkʊk u- /

noun

a common European arum, Arum maculatum.

cuckoopint British

/ ˈkʊkuːˌpaɪnt /

noun

Also called: lords-and-ladies. wake-robin. a European aroid plant, Arum maculatum, with arrow-shaped leaves, a spathe marked with purple, a pale purple spadix, and scarlet berries

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Etymology

Origin of cuckoopint

1545–55; apocopated variant of obsolete cuckoopintle, late Middle English cokkupyntel ( see cuckoo, pintle); its spadix is pintle-shaped

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cuckoopint

When sweet wild April Dipped down the dale, Pale cuckoopint brightened, And windflower trail, And white-thorn, the wood-bride, In virginal veil.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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