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COWSLIP
Definition of COWSLIP
noun
A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
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Other senses
COWSLIP carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A Eurasian primrose (Primula veris) having fragrant yellow flowers, widely cultivated as an ornamental and long used in herbal medicine.
noun
The popular name of several varieties of Primula veris, a favorite wild flower found in British pastures and hedge-banks, and cultivated in the United States. It has umbels of small, buff-yellow, scented flowers on short pedicels. Its flowers have been used as an anodyne.
noun
In the United States, the more common name of the marsh-marigold, Caltha palustris.
noun
A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.
Where it comes from
From Middle English cowslyppe, from Old English cūslyppe (“cowslip”), from cū (“cow”) + slyppe (“paste, viscid substance”), related to Old English slūpan (“to slip, glide, move softly”). Compare oxlip.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,251)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COWSLIP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COWSLIP starts with C and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read CILOPSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COWSLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found COWSLIP?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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