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kingcup ‎(plural kingcups)

1. (Britain) A local name for various species of buttercup, or for the marsh marigold, Caltha palustris.
   • 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, p. 99:

     He told me how the wise toad who squats among the kingcups by the stream in summer has a very precious jewel in his head.