Paigle

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A wild European plant of the primrose family with clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, known in older English as a name for the cowslip
2. An archaic English name for the cowslip, a small primula bearing nodding clusters of pale yellow blossoms in spring
3. Another name for the cowslip, a meadow primrose whose drooping yellow flowers grow in umbels on a slender stalk

Etymology: Paigle is an old English name for the cowslip, the pale yellow spring flower whose blooms hang in small nodding clusters from a single stalk. The name survived mainly in regional and literary use, while "cowslip" became the everyday term. Because the word's own origin is not firmly established, its story is mostly one of the plant it names and the places where people kept using it.

Synonyms: cowslip, oxlip