butter-and-eggs

butter-and-eggs
/but"euhr euhn egz"/, n., pl. butter-and-eggs. (used with a sing. or pl. v.)
any of certain plants whose flowers are of two shades of yellow, as the toadflax, Linaria vulgaris.
[1770-80]

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Common perennial herbaceous plant (Linaria vulgaris) of the snapdragon family, native to Eurasia and widely naturalized in North America.

The plant bears flaxlike leaves and showy yellow and orange flowers that are two-lipped and spurred like snapdragons.

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plant
also called  toadflax 

      common perennial herbaceous plant (Linaria vulgaris) of the Plantaginaceae family, native to Eurasia and widely naturalized in North America. The plant bears flaxlike leaves and showy yellow and orange flowers that are two-lipped and spurred like snapdragons.

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