cuckoo flower

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Noun	1.	cuckoo flower - a bitter cress of Europe and America Cardamine pratensis, cuckooflower, lady's smock, meadow cress bitter cress, bittercress - any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic
	2.	cuckoo flower - common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals Lychins floscuculi, Lychnis flos-cuculi, ragged robin lychnis, catchfly - mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone

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bitter cress bittercress Cardamine pratensis catchfly cuckooflower lady's smock Lychins floscuculi lychnis Lychnis flos-cuculi meadow cress ragged robin			The Cuckoo flower was chosen as the County flower by the conservation charity Plantlife in 2002. All You Need to Know About Cheshire, UK by Ram Singh / Travel, recreation and leisure community As I went along through the stunted remains of the hilltop plantation, the ground got damper and soon I was admiring sparse colonies of lady's smock (or cuckoo flower in these parts of Peakland); and dancing around them, as if treading air to maintain position, were a dozen or more green-veined white butterflies. Country diary by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk As a result of their efforts, Herdship Farm is now a haven for rare farmland birds such as lapwing, snipe, curlew, redshank, black grouse and yellow wagtail, and rare plants, including globe flower, melancholy thistle, cuckoo flower and the Teesdale gentian, flourish there. Reaping the rewards of environmental care by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			Cubo-octahedron cuboid cuboid bone Cuboidal cuboidal cell cuboidal epithelial cell cuboidal epithelium cubomancy Cuca cuchifrito Cuchulain cucking stool cuckold Cuckold's knot Cuckoldize Cuckoldly Cuckoldom cuckoldry cuckoo cuckoo bee cuckoo bread cuckoo clock Cuckoo dove Cuckoo falcon Cuckoo fish cuckoo flower Cuckoo maid cuckoo mate Cuckoo ray cuckoo shrike cuckoo spit cuckoo's nest cuckoo-bumblebee Cuckoobud cuckooflower cuckoopint Cucquean Cucujo Cuculidae cuculiform cuculiform bird Cuculiformes cucullate Cucullus Cuculoid Cuculus Cuculus canorus cucumber Cucumber beetle. cucumber mosaic cucumber tree			cuckold cuckold Cuckold's knot Cuckoldatrix cuckolded cuckolding Cuckoldize Cuckoldly Cuckoldom cuckoldries cuckoldries cuckoldry cuckoldry cuckolds cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo Cuckoo bee Cuckoo bees Cuckoo bird Cuckoo bird cuckoo bread Cuckoo bumblebee Cuckoo bumblebee cuckoo clock Cuckoo clocks Cuckoo dove cuckoo egg Cuckoo falcon Cuckoo fish cuckoo flower Cuckoo maid cuckoo mate Cuckoo Owl Cuckoo pint Cuckoo pint Cuckoo pint Cuckoo ray Cuckoo shrike Cuckoo Song cuckoo spit cuckoo spit Cuckoo wasp cuckoo wasps Cuckoo's Egg cuckoo's nest cuckoo-bumblebee Cuckoo-clock Cuckoo-clocks Cuckoo-roller Cuckoo-shrike Cuckoo-shrike Cuckoo-spit Cuckoo-spit Cuckoobud cuckooed cuckooed cuckooed cuckooflower cuckooflowers cuckooing

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