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butter-and-eggs

butter-and-eggs noun: a flowering plant, of species Linaria vulgaris, native to Europe and northern Asia; yellow toadflax; common toadflax.

butter-and-eggs: a flowering plant, of species Linaria vulgaris, native to Europe and northern Asia; yellow...
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Noun

butter-and-eggs (uncountable)

  1. A flowering plant, of species Linaria vulgaris, native to Europe and northern Asia; yellow toadflax; common toadflax.
  2. A flowering plant, of species Triphysaria eriantha, native to North America; johnny-tuck.

Origin of butter-and-eggs

From the yellow and white coloration of the flowers.

Questions about butter-and-eggs

What does butter-and-eggs mean?
Butter-and-eggs means a flowering plant, of species Linaria vulgaris, native to Europe and northern Asia; yellow toadflax; common toadflax.
What part of speech is butter-and-eggs?
Butter-and-eggs is a noun.

Words near butter-and-eggs in the dictionary

  1. butter-and-egg man
  2. butter-and-egg men
  3. butter-and-egg money
  4. butter-and-egger
  5. butter-and-eggers
  6. butter-and-eggs
  7. butter-box
  8. butter-boxes
  9. butter-fat
  10. butter-fats
  11. butter-fingered

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