CUP AND SAUCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cup and saucer mean? 

• CUP AND SAUCER (noun)
  The noun CUP AND SAUCER has 1 sense:

1. European biennial widely cultivated for its blue or violet or white flowers

  Familiarity information: CUP AND SAUCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUP AND SAUCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European biennial widely cultivated for its blue or violet or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Campanula medium; Canterbury bell; cup and saucer

Hypernyms ("cup and saucer" is a kind of...):

bellflower; campanula (any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers)

 Context examples 

The next bustle brought in Mr. Campbell, the surgeon of the Thrush, a very well-behaved young man, who came to call for his friend, and for whom there was with some contrivance found a chair, and with some hasty washing of the young tea-maker's, a cup and saucer; and after another quarter of an hour of earnest talk between the gentlemen, noise rising upon noise, and bustle upon bustle, men and boys at last all in motion together, the moment came for setting off; everything was ready, William took leave, and all of them were gone; for the three boys, in spite of their mother's entreaty, determined to see their brother and Mr. Campbell to the sally-port; and Mr. Price walked off at the same time to carry back his neighbour's newspaper.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)