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kingcups

kingcups is the plural of kingcup.

Meaning of kingcup

Noun

kingcup (plural kingcups)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Any of various species of buttercup, or the marsh marigold, Caltha palustris.
    • He told me how the wise toad who squats among the kingcups by the stream in summer has a very precious jewel in his head.1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 99

Questions about kingcups

What is kingcups the plural of?
Kingcups is the plural of kingcup.

Words near kingcups in the dictionary

  1. kingcraft
  2. kingcrafts
  3. kingcroaker
  4. kingcroakers
  5. kingcup
  6. kingcups
  7. kingdom
  8. kingdom come
  9. kingdom comes
  10. Kingdom County
  11. Kingdom Hall

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