golden cup

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English

Noun

golden cup (plural golden cups)

  1. (now rare) Any of various buttercups (genus Ranunculus).
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 234:
      [T]heir maid has dressed their hats with cowslips, orchisses, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups [] .