Hamlet vocabulary

5 plants, trees, botany terms

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5 [botany] words
primrose
nettles
rue
long purples
crowflower
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long purples

help with synonyms  synonyms: Orchis mascula, dead menʼs fingers ???
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Definition:
a species of orchid that is devoid of necter. It mimics similar plants to tricks insects into pollination.

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There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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