ra·nun·cu·lus (r -n ng ky-ls)n. pl. ra·nun·cu·lus·es or ra·nun·cu·li (-l   ) Any of numerous plants of the genus Ranunculus, including the buttercups. [New Latin R  nunculus, genus name, from Latin rnunculus, a kind of medicinal plant, diminutive of rna, frog, perhaps of imitative origin.] |
ranunculus [rəˈnʌŋkjʊləs]
n pl -luses, -li [-ˌlaɪ]
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Ranunculus, having finely divided leaves and typically yellow five-petalled flowers. The genus includes buttercup, crowfoot, spearwort, and lesser celandine
[from Latin: tadpole, from rāna a frog]
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| Noun | 1. |  Ranunculus - annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfootmagnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup - any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus Ranunculus aquatilis, water buttercup, water crowfoot - plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America lesser celandine, pilewort, Ranunculus ficaria - perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles lesser spearwort, Ranunculus flammula - semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand Ranunculus glaberrimus, sagebrush buttercup - small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America greater spearwort, Ranunculus lingua - semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears |
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