oxlips

The special food fad of muntjac, he says, is to eat the flowers of oxlips.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The special food fad of muntjac, he says, is to eat the flowers of oxlips.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The only interesting point is the frequency of the production of natural hybrids, i.e. oxlips, and the existence of one kind of oxlip which constitutes a third good and distinct species.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

She had been giving them, it appeared, a lesson in practical botany; their hats were adorned with scarlet and yellow blossoms, and they carried bunches of oxlips and violets.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

Lying on the bank, which enclosed the orchard, was a blue-eyed rosy-cheeked little girl; -- the ground ashes had been cut down; and her laughing face was pillowed on the violets and oxlips, that burst from between the roots.

A Love Story A Bushman

The ground was starred with wood-anemones, oxlips, violets, cuckoo-flowers, and in damp places with green-golden saxifrage.

Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

At the bottom of the wood-yard was a little stream, and on the far bank clusters of oxlips were in bloom.

Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and

Quotations 1919

The only interesting point is the frequency of the production of natural hybrids, i.e. oxlips, and the existence of one kind of oxlip which constitutes a third good and distinct species.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

The weather was bright, the enemy entirely inactive, and the wood, with its oxlips and other spring flowers, its budding branches unscarred by shell fire, was a picture of charm rare in modern warfare.

The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) 1914