Obs. [Cf CROW sb. 10.] The plant Soapwort, Saponaria officinalis; also applied to some species of Lychnis.
a. 1387. Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.), 37. Saponaria, crowsope.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. x. 159. The wilde Campions are called
of some Crowesope.