Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A super-family of coccygomorphie birds, of the conventional order Picariæ, including several families related to the Cuculidæ.
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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.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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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.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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In Cocachacra, however, I heard one of these birds which repeated its _cuculi_ fourteen times.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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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.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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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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Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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