whitecup

[ hwahyt-kuhp, wahyt- ]

/ ˈʰwaɪtˌkʌp, ˈwaɪt- /

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noun

a creeping South American plant, Nierembergia repens, of the nightshade family, having bell-shaped, lilac- or blue-tinged, cream-white flowers.

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Origin of whitecup

white + cup

Words nearby whitecup

white-collar, white-collar crime, white corpuscle, white crab, white-crowned sparrow, whitecup, white currant, whited, white damp, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre

How to use whitecup in a sentence

Here Whitecup taught me more than I had ever dreamed about catching mink.
Black Beaver|James Campbell Lewis