butter and eggs

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butter and eggs - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Toadflax \Toad"flax`\, n. (Bot.)
     An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having
     narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called
     also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
     [1913 Webster]

  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]