Meanings
nounwincopipe (plural wincopipes)
plural wincopipes
- dialectalobsoleteThe pimpernel flower, Anagallis arvensis.
There is a small red flower in the stubble fields which country people call the wincopipe; which if it open in the morning you may be sure of a fair day to follow
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
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