buttercup

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Any of numerous herbs of the genus Ranunculus, native chiefly to temperate and cold regions and having acrid juice, often toothed or lobed leaves, and usually yellow or white flowers with numerous pistils.

buttercup [ˈbʌtəˌkʌp]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various yellow-flowered ranunculaceous plants of the genus Ranunculus, such as R. acris (meadow buttercup), which is native to Europe but common throughout North America See also crowfoot, goldilocks [2] spearwort, lesser celandine

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Noun

buttercup - any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus

butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup

genus Ranunculus, Ranunculus - annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot

meadow buttercup, Ranunculus acris, tall buttercup, tall crowfoot, tall field buttercup - perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America

common buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus - perennial Old World buttercup with golden to sulphur yellow flowers in late spring to early summer; naturalized in North America

Mount Cook lily, Ranunculus lyalii, mountain lily - showy white-flowered perennial of New Zealand

Ranunculus occidentalis, western buttercup - perennial of western North America

creeping buttercup, creeping crowfoot, Ranunculus repens - perennial European herb with long creeping stolons

celery-leaved buttercup, cursed crowfoot, Ranunculus sceleratus - annual herb growing in marshy places

herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

Translations

buttercup [ˈbʌtəkʌp] N → ranúnculo m

buttercup [ˈbʌtə^rkʌp] n → bouton m d'or
butter dish n → beurrier m

buttercup [ˈbʌtəˌkʌp] n → ranuncolo

buttercup → عُشْب الحَوْذان pryskyřník smørblomst Butterblume νεραγκούλα ranúnculo leinikki bouton-d’or zlatica ranuncolo キンポウゲ 미나리아재비 boterbloem soleie jaskier ranúnculo лютик smörblomma ดอกไม้ป่าดอกเล็กสีเหลือง düğün çiçeği cây mao lương hoa vàng 毛莨

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butter-flower butterflower common buttercup creeping buttercup creeping crowfoot crowfoot cursed crowfoot genus Laccopetalum genus Ranunculus Goldcup kingcup Laccopetalum meadow buttercup Mount Cook lily ranunculus Ranunculus acris Ranunculus bulbosus Ranunculus glaberrimus Ranunculus occidentalis	Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easily through it. Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context One might instance the belief that two and two are four, that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time, nor one thing in two places, or that a particular buttercup that we are seeing is yellow. The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: `I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context	butter muslin Butter of tin Butter of zinc Butter print butter stamp butter tart Butter tooth Butter tree Butter trier butter up Butter wife butter woman butter-and-eggs butter-bean plant butter-fingered butter-flower butter-print Butter-scotch butterball butterbean Butterbird Butterbump butterbur Butterbur coltsfoot buttercrunch buttercup buttercup family buttercup squash butterfat butterfat cheque Butterfield butterfingered butterfingers butterfish Butterflies butterflower butterfly butterfly ballot butterfly bush butterfly chair butterfly collar butterfly collector butterfly diagram butterfly effect butterfly fish butterfly flower Butterfly lily butterfly nut butterfly orchid butterfly orchis butterfly pea	Butter Week Butter wife butter woman butter wouldn't melt butter wouldn't melt in mouth Butter Yellow butter-and-eggs butter-and-eggs butter-bean plant butter-fingered Butter-fish Butter-fish butter-flower Butter-Making butter-print Butter-scotch butterball butterballs butterbean Butterbean (disambiguation) Butterbird Butterbump butterbur butterbur butterbur Butterbur coltsfoot butterburs butterburs buttercrunch buttercup buttercup comb buttercup comb buttercup comb buttercup comb buttercup family Buttercup Flower buttercup squash buttercup squash buttercup squashes buttercup yellow Buttercups Buttercups Buttercups Butterdock buttered buttered buttered buttered Buttered Toast Buttered Toast Buttered Toast buttered up buttered up buttered up butterfat butterfat butterfat butterfat cheque Butterfat Content Butterfield

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butter-flower
butterflower
common buttercup
creeping buttercup
creeping crowfoot
crowfoot
cursed crowfoot
genus Laccopetalum
genus Ranunculus
Goldcup
kingcup
Laccopetalum
meadow buttercup
Mount Cook lily
ranunculus
Ranunculus acris
Ranunculus bulbosus
Ranunculus glaberrimus
Ranunculus occidentalis

Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easily through it.

Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

One might instance the belief that two and two are four, that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time, nor one thing in two places, or that a particular buttercup that we are seeing is yellow.

The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context

said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: `I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context

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