butter-and-eggs

but·ter-and-eggs

(bŭt′ər-ən-ĕgz′)pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A weedy perennial herb (Linaria vulgaris) native to Eurasia, having narrow leaves and racemes of showy, long-spurred yellow and orange flowers.

butter-and-eggs

n (Plants) (functioning as singular) any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow

but′ter-and-eggs′

n., pl. but•ter-and-eggs. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) any of several plants whose flowers are of two shades of yellow, as the toadflax. [1770–80]

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butter-and-eggs - common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North Americadevil's flax, Linaria vulgaris, toadflax, wild snapdragonflower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossomsgenus Linaria, Linaria - genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragonblue toadflax, Linaria canadensis, old-field toadflax - North American plant having racemes of blue-violet flowers

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butter-and-eggs,

common name for a plant of the family Scrophulariaceae (figwortfigwort,
common name for some members of the Scrophulariaceae, a family comprising chiefly herbs and small shrubs and distributed widely over all continents. The family includes a few climbing types and some parasitic and saprophytic forms.
..... Click the link for more information. family) and sometimes for other yellow-and-orange flowers. Butter-and-eggs plants are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Scrophulariales, family Scrophulariaceae.

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noun common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers

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