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QUEEN'S CUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does queen's cup mean?
• QUEEN'S CUP (noun)
The noun QUEEN'S CUP has 1 sense:
1. plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana
Familiarity information: QUEEN'S CUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bride's bonnet; Clintonia uniflora; queen's cup
Hypernyms ("queen's cup" is a kind of...):
Clinton's lily; clintonia (any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries)
Holonyms ("queen's cup" is a member of...):
genus Clintonia (sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae)
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