Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A super-family of coccygomorphie birds, of the conventional order Picariæ, including several families related to the Cuculidæ.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For few innocent minded persons would ever guess that Alyssum saxatile meant golden basket, or that Lychnis flos-cuculi and ragged robin were one and the same.
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The Crow-flower is now the Buttercup, [67: 1] but in Shakespeare's time it was applied to the Ragged Robin (_Lychnis flos-cuculi_), and I should think that this was the flower that poor Ophelia wove into her garland.
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In Cocachacra, however, I heard one of these birds which repeated its _cuculi_ fourteen times.
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There are, however, some of those birds which repeat the _cuculi_ oftener than thrice, and their price increases according to the number of their uninterrupted repetitions, which seldom exceed five or six.
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It grows on low meadows, where in Europe the Mea - dow-pinks, or Lychnis fios cuculi, would be met with.
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