cuckoo-pintn.
/ˈkʊkuːˌpɪnt/ The wild or common Arum, A. maculatum, or Wake-robin.
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1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. D vj b Coccowpynt called also in Englyshe rampe or Aron.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 299 Root of Cuckoe-pint, half a dram.
1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 59 There is a kind of cuckow-pint in New-France, that if you break a branch of it, will afford you a pint of excellent water.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxii. 239 The odd cuckoo-pint—like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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