spring beauty (spring but i)

1. A common American wild flower of the genus Claytonia, especially C. Virginica, a low, succulent herb, sending up from a deep-set tuber in early spring a simple stem bearing a pair of narrow leaves and a loose gradually developing raceme of pretty flowers, which are white or rose-colored with deeper veins. See cut under Claytonia. The smaller C. Carol in i an a, with spatulate or oval leaves, is more northern except xcept in the mountains.-2. In entom., a beautiful little butterfly of America, Erora læta, which appears in spring, and has the hind wings in the male brown bordered with blue, in the female mostly blue. S. H. Scudder. [Recent.] spring-bed (spring bed), n. 1. A mattre formed of spiral springs or a fabric woven of coiled d spiral wire, set in a wooden frame.-2. In a cloth-shearing machine, a long elastic plate of steel fastened to the framing of the machine to pre the fibers of the cloth within the range of the cutting edges. A beetle of