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butter-and-eggs

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but·ter-and-eggs (btr-n-gz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
A weedy perennial herb (Linaria vulgaris) native to Eurasia, having narrow leaves and racemes of showy, long-spurred yellow and orange flowers. Also called toadflax.

butter-and-eggs
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (functioning as singular) any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
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Noun1.butter-and-eggs - common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowersbutter-and-eggs - common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
genus Linaria, Linaria - genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon
blue toadflax, Linaria canadensis, old-field toadflax - North American plant having racemes of blue-violet flowers


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