Definition of "oxlips" [oxlips]

• Plural form of oxlip. (noun)

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• "The special food fad of muntjac, he says, is to eat the flowers of oxlips."
• "Lying on the bank, which enclosed the orchard, was a blue-eyed rosy-cheeked little girl; -- the ground ashes had been cut down; and her laughing face was pillowed on the violets and oxlips, that burst from between the roots."
• "The only interesting point is the frequency of the production of natural hybrids, i.e. oxlips, and the existence of one kind of oxlip which constitutes a third good and distinct species."