golden cup

English

Noun

golden cup (plural golden cups)

1. (now rare) Any of various buttercups (genus Ranunculus). [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 234:

     [T]heir maid has dressed their hats with cowslips, orchisses, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups […] .