kingcup

American  

[king-kuhp] / ˈkɪŋˌkʌp /

noun

1. any of various common buttercups, as Ranunculus bulbosus, having bright-yellow flowers.

2. Chiefly British. the marsh marigold.

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kingcup British  

/ ˈkɪŋˌkʌp /

noun

1. any of several yellow-flowered ranunculaceous plants, esp the marsh marigold

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Etymology

Origin of kingcup

First recorded in 1530–40; king + cup

Example Sentences

"May flowers" were put at the doors of houses and cattle-sheds, and these were not hawthorn blossoms, but the flowers of the kingcup, or marsh marigold.

From Miscellanea by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

My Blouzelind's than gilliflower more fair, Than daisie, marygold, or kingcup rare.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

There must be leaves on the woodbine, Is the kingcup crowned in the meadow?

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

Within the kingcup if thy limbs are spread, Or in the golden cowslip's velvet head, Oh show me, Flora, 'midst those sweets, the flower Where sleeps my Grildrig in the fragrant bower!

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George