bishop's cap

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English

Noun

bishop's cap (plural bishop's caps)

  1. The plant miterwort.
    • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Prelude”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, →OCLC, page xi:
      Therefore, at Pentecost, which brings
      The Spring, clothed like a bride,
      When nestling buds unfold their wings,
      And bishop's-caps have golden rings,
      Musing upon many things,
      I sought the woodlands wide.
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