oxlip noun. ['ɒkslɪp] OE.
[from OX + SLIP noun¹: cf. COWSLIP.]
Any of several kinds of Primula having flowers in a stalked umbel like the cowslip, P. veris, but larger and paler; orig. (more fully false oxlip), the hybrid between the cowslip and the primrose, P. vulgaris; later (more fully true Bardfield oxlip, Bardfield oxlip), P. elatior, a woodland species restricted in Britain to Essex and parts of East Anglia.

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