Example sentences for: cowslips

How can you use “cowslips” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is possible that before the 15th century both the primrose and the cowslip ( Primula veris ) were regarded as one and the same and called cowslips [Old English cuslippe ]. Since where the two species grow near to each other they hybridize freely giving rise to intermediate forms, the need for two names might not have been apparent in earlier times.

  • Shakespeare knew of primroses ( Cymbeline ), cowslips ( The Tempest ), and oxlips ( The Winter's Tale ), and presumably the difference between them although there seems to be no way of knowing which oxlip he meant.

  • “That's a lovely centerpiece of bachelor's buttons and cowslips, Eleanor.


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