butter-and-eggs

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.

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butter-and-eggs

n

(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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Noun

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butter-and-eggs - common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America devil's flax, Linaria vulgaris, toadflax, wild snapdragon 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