Cowslip vs Oxlip - What's the difference?
cowslip | oxlip |
A low-growing plant, , with yellow flowers.
* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
Any of several other plants related or similar in appearance
# , a flowering plant known as (vern, God's cowslip) and (rila cowslip)
# , a flowering plant known as (giant cowslip) and (Tibetan cowslip)
# , a flowering plant known as (Himalayan cowslip) and (Sikkim cowslip)
# (North America, regional) marsh marigold, Caltha palustris , a plant in the buttercup family, growing in wet, boggy locations.
# , (blue cowslip) or (narrow-leaved lungwort)
As nouns the difference between cowslip and oxlip
is that cowslip is a low-growing plant, species: Primula veris, with yellow flowers while oxlip is the plant species: Primula elatior, similar to cowslip but with larger, pale yellow flowers.cowslip
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* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia cowslip)- Where the bee sucks, there suck I: / In a cowslip's bell I lie;