oxlip

How to use oxlip in a sentence

• Drawing her scarlet cloak higher on her shoulders, she bent her steps towards oxlip Dell.

  Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry Wood

• The first visit we paid the following morning was to oxlip Grange, to see Coralie.

  Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry Wood

• oxlip, oks′lip, n. a species of primrose, having its flowers in an umbel on a stalk like the cowslip.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• Huxley held forth last week about the oxlip, which he says is unknown on the Continent.

  Charles Lyell and Modern Geology | Thomas George Bonney

• Why, do you remember that there stir, sir, about the ghost that was said to haunt oxlip Dell?

  Johnny Ludlow, Third Series | Mrs. Henry Wood