Definition of "celandine"
Either of two not closely related flowering plants:
Quotations
If your mouth waters now, what had it done, / Cou’d you have seen our delicate fine thrushes / Hot from the spit, with myrtle-berries cramm’d, / And larded well with celandine and parsley, / Bob at your hungry lips, crying—Come eat me!
1786, “From The Miners of Pherecrates”, in Richard Cumberland, transl., The Observer, volume 3, number 78, page 175
Buttercups, that will be seen,Whether we will see or no;Others, too, of lofty mien;They have done as worldlings do,Taken praise that should be thine,Little, humble Celandine!
1807, William Wordsworth, “To the Small Celandine”, in Poems, volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, page 25