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but·ter·cup

(bŭt′ər-kŭp′)

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.

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buttercup

(ˈbʌtəˌkʌp)

(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, goldilocks², spearwort, lesser celandine

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but•ter•cup

(ˈbʌt ərˌkʌp)

n.

any of numerous plants of the genus Ranunculus, having glossy yellow flowers and deeply cut leaves.

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Noun

buttercup - any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus

butterflower, butter-flower, 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

حَوْذان

pryskyřník

smørblomst

Butterblume

νεραγκούλα

ranúnculo

leinikki

bouton-d’orrenoncule

zlatica

botton d'oro ranuncolo

キンポウゲ

미나리아재비

smörblomma

ดอกไม้ป่าดอกเล็กสีเหลือง

düğün çiçeği

cây mao lương hoa vàng

毛莨

buttercup

[ˈbʌtəkʌp] N → ranúnculo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

buttercup

[ˈbʌtə^rkʌp] n → bouton m d'orbutter dish n → beurrier m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

buttercup

[ˈbʌtəˌkʌp] n → ranuncolo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

buttercup

→ حَوْذان 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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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.

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

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`And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' 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!

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"This horse is decidedly, or rather has been in his youth, a buttercup," resumed the stranger, continuing the remarks he had begun, and addressing himself to his auditors at the window, without paying the least attention to the exasperation of D'Artagnan, who, however placed himself between him and them.

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Jeremy Fisher; he lived in a little damp house amongst the buttercups at the edge of a pond.

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As they crept along, stooping low to discern the plant, a soft yellow gleam was reflected from the buttercups into their shaded faces, giving them an elfish, moonlit aspect, though the sun was pouring upon their backs in all the strength of noon.

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The seventh road was a good road, and curved this way and that--winding through green meadows and fields covered with daisies and buttercups and past groups of shady trees.

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In another second he was swung through the sunlight, and laid out breathing hard in a death-bed of buttercups and daisies.

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Pipt's garden grew bun- trees, cake-trees, cream-puff bushes, blue buttercups which yielded excellent blue butter and a row of chocolate-caramel plants.

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The latter, however, were supplied before Anne reached the main road, for being confronted halfway down the lane with a golden frenzy of wind-stirred buttercups and a glory of wild roses, Anne promptly and liberally garlanded her hat with a heavy wreath of them.

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Carter's cows, trod the short grass of the pasture, with its well-worn path running through gardens of buttercups and white- weed, and groves of ivory leaves and sweet fern.

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They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups. Dorothy still wore the pretty silk dress she had put on in the palace, but now, to her surprise, she found it was no longer green, but pure white.