NOUN
- any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts
How To Use painted cup In A Sentence
- Little children prefer red sugar-plums to white, and always think it the best "content" which is drunk from a painted cup; but when the dispensation of content and sugar-plums has yielded to maturer age, the man takes his coffee and his cracknel without observing the pattern of the pottery. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
- Besides the painted cup there are classed in this group the mullen, the common toad-flax, the foxglove, the gerardias, and the calceolarias.
- His supplies included ‘1 paint stone,’ ‘knife and muller,’ ‘1 box and drawers of paints,’ and ‘1 painted cupboard and its contents (oil jugs, paint, & c).