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lady's smock

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensisnoun

    a bitter cress of Europe and America

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ladys-smocknoun

    Cardamine. The flower consists of four leaves succeeded by narrow pods, which when ripe roll up, and cast forth their seeds: the leaves for the most part are winged. The first sort is sometimes used in medicine; the third sort is a very beautiful plant, continuing a long time in flower: they are preserved in botanick gardens, and some of them merit a place in some shady part of every curious garden, for their odd manner of casting forth their seeds on the slightest touch when the pods are ripe. Philip Miller

    When dazies pied, and violets blue,
    And lady’s-smocks all silver white,
    Do paint the meadows much bedight. William Shakespeare.

    See here a boy gathering lilies and lady-smocks, and there a girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips, all to make garlands. Izaak Walton, Angler.

    Lady’s-smocks have small stringy roots that run in the ground, and comes up in divers places. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

Wikipedia

  1. lady's smock

    Cardamine pratensis, the cuckoo flower, lady's smock, mayflower, or milkmaids, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is a perennial herb native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia. The specific name pratensis is Latin for "meadow".

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  1. lady's smock

    Lady's Smock, also known as Cardamine pratensis or Cuckoo Flower, is a perennial flowering plant in the Brassicaceae family native to Europe and Western Asia. It features delicate, pale pink or white flowers. It's typically found growing in moist conditions like meadows, river banks, and damp woods. Lady's Smock is also the food plant of the Orange Tip butterfly's larvae. The name "Lady's Smock" comes from its blossom, which looks like an old-fashioned smock or shirt.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lady's smock

    a plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lady's smock in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lady's smock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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