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butter and eggs

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The popular name in the British islands of the double-flowered variety of Narcissus aurantius and of other species of the same genus, and in the United States of the toad-flax or ramsted, Linaria vulgaris: from the color of the flowers, which are of two shades of yellow.
  • noun The act of sliding on one foot, and striking the slide with the heel and toe of the other foot at short intervals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) a name given to several perennial plants having showy flowers of two shades of yellow, or of yellow and orange, such as Narcissus incomparabilis in Europe, and the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) in the United States; the latter is a naturalized weed in North America.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America

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