royal cowslips
royal cowslips is the plural of royal cowslip.
Meaning of royal cowslip
Noun
royal cowslip (plural royal cowslips)
- An unidentified flowering plant of Javan mountains formerly classified as Primula imperialis, now considered a nomen dubium.
- At about 5,000 feet European forms of plants become abundant. Several species of Honeysuckle, St. John's-wort, and Guelder-rose abound, and at about 9,000 feet we first meet with the rare and beautiful Royal Cowslip (Primula imperialis), which is said to be found nowhere else in the world but on...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 183
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- Royal cowslips is the plural of royal cowslip.
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