Wincopipe

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wincopipe \Win"co*pipe\, n. (Bot.)
     A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it
     opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See
     {Pimpernel}.
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           There is small red flower in the stubble fields, which
           country people call the wincopipe; which if it opens in
           the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow.
                                                    --Bacon.
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