Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cuckoo_flower

2 senses of cuckoo flower

Sense 1
lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensis -- (a bitter cress of Europe and America)
       => bittercress, bitter cress -- (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)

Sense 2
ragged robin, cuckoo flower, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Lychins floscuculi -- (common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals)
       => lychnis, catchfly -- (mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone)