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How to pronounce cowslip in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms paigle, primula veris
Type of primrose, primula
Type Words
Synonyms caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, may blob, meadow bright, water dragon
Type of marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant

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The orchids included spider, donkey, pitcher, enamel and cowslip, to name a few.
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Cowslip leaves have been traditionally used in Spanish cooking as a salad green.
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Both the common primrose and the related cowslip drew the attention of Charles Darwin.
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The word cowslip comes from an old word for cowpat, as cowslips would grow alongside cow manure in English meadows.
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Now how about cowslip wine?
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Is accidental poisoning unique to Britain, where many people are so clueless about nature they can barely tell a crow from a cowslip?
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Try Primula veris, the wild cowslip, which produces fragrant, nodding umbels of deep yellow flowers on an upright stem in late spring.
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The bluebell woods, cowslip-studded motorway sidings, snake's head fritillaries and cow parsley all came and went within a matter of days.
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What Sutherland finds in the landscape is quite different, of course, from Palmer's joy in every cowslip, but it is still a form of captivation.
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  • Early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers
  • Marsh marigold: swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups
  • In bovine podiatry, a cowslip is a tough plastic shoe used to treat lameness in cattle. It fits onto the healthy claw (one side of the cloven hoof). The shoe is applied with glue and allowed to set. The shoe, applied to the healthy claw, will raise the damaged claw of the ground. ...
  • Primula veris (Cowslip; syn. Primula officinalis Hill) is a flowering plant in the genus Primula. The species is found throughout most of temperate Europe and Asia, and although absent from more northerly areas including much of northwest Scotland, it reappears in northernmost Sutherland and ...
  • Caltha palustris (Kingcup, Marsh Marigold) is a herbaceous perennial plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • The 1836 Great Liverpool Steeplechase was the first of three unofficial annual precursors of a Handicap Steeple-chase, later to become known as the Grand National Steeplechase Horse race which took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on February 29, 1836 and attracted a field of ten ...
  • Cowslip may refer to: * Primula veris, a flowering plant also known as primrose * Caltha palustris, a flowering plant also known as marsh marigold
  • This is a list of characters in Watership Down, a 1972 novel by Richard Adams. The majority also appear in the 1978 feature film adaptation and/or 1996 follow-up collection of short stories.
  • A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers; A plant in the buttercup family, Caltha palustris, growing in wet, boggy locations