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couslip

couslip is the obsolete spelling of cowslip.

Meaning of cowslip

Noun

cowslip (plural cowslips)

  1. A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
    • Where the bee sucks, there suck I: / In a cowslip's bell I lie;1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    Synonyms:
    paigle, herb Peter
  2. Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip and rila cowslip
  3. Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant cowslip and Tibetan cowslip
  4. Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as Himalayan cowslip and Sikkim cowslip
  5. (Canada, US, regional) marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, a plant in the buttercup family, growing in wet, boggy locations.
  6. Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort

Forms of couslip

pluralcouslips

Questions about couslip

What is couslip the obsolete spelling of?
Couslip is the obsolete spelling of cowslip.

Words near couslip in the dictionary

  1. cousins-in-law
  2. cousinship
  3. cousinships
  4. cousiny
  5. Cousland
  6. couslip
  7. couslips
  8. coussinet
  9. coussinets
  10. Cousteron
  11. Cousy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: couslip (page history and authors); cowslip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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