lady's-smock

British  

noun

1. Also called: cuckooflower.  a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

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Example Sentences

Spink, spingk, n. the primrose, the lady's-smock.

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When she gathered her first posy of lady's-smock in the long water meadow near the mill, the little milk-white flowers said, "Why have you been away from us so long?"

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Those who adopt this view called the plant Our Lady's-smock, but I cannot find that name in any old writers.

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The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy.

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“Search in the fields for a lady’s-smock; Where could you find you a prettier frock?”

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