Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The evening primrose.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A yellow flowered evening primrose (Taraxia ovata, syn. Œnothera ovata) native of California.
Etymologies
- sun + cup (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘suncup’.
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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A Peckerwick of Fiffoldry
fogray, whalesong, solregn, shoecabbage, thorn-bush, thistledown, pomander, thornbush, dreamy duskywing, sedge, unbunting-like, quilp and 119 more...
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Glacial Effects
albedo, ablation, crevasse, firn, glacial flour, glacial polish, icefall, jokulhlaup, ice sheet, ice shelf, ice cap, ice stream and 82 more...
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reesetee Probably not--but from what I found, it's not the same type of flower. This one's also called a sundrop.
You are talking about flowers, right? ;-) Nov 14, 2008
atourgates And here I thought you'd just misspelled firm.
Could anyone disprove me if I claimed it was an alternate name for buttercup? Nov 14, 2008
reesetee A small depression on a snow or firn surface formed by melting and evaporation from direct exposure to the sun. Nov 13, 2008