Butter-and-eggs

2 definitions found

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

  Butter and eggs \Butter and eggs\, butter-and-eggs
  \butter-and-eggs\n.(Bot.),
     a name given to several perennial plants having showy flowers
     of two shades of yellow, or of yellow and orange, such as
     {Narcissus incomparabilis} in Europe, and the toadflax
     ({Linaria vulgaris}) in the United States; the latter is a


     naturalized weed in North America.
  
     Syn: toadflax, wild snapdragon, devil's flax, Linaria
          vulgaris.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  butter-and-eggs
       n : common European perennial having showy yellow and orange
           flowers; a naturalized weed in North America [syn: {toadflax},
            {wild snapdragon}, {devil's flax}, {Linaria vulgaris}]