crowflower
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]crowflower (plural crowflowers)
- (obsolete) A kind of campion.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
- There with fantastic garlands did she come / Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples.