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Buttercup

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Noun

1. butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup

any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Buttercup

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noun
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 (sense 2), spearwort, lesser celandine

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Buttercup

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adjective
1. 
designating a large, widespread family (Ranunculaceae, order Ranunculales) of dicotyledonous flowering plants, including peonies, aconites, and anemones
noun
2. 
any of a genus (Ranunculus) of normally yellow-flowered plants of the buttercup family, common in meadows and wet places

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Buttercup

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n.
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.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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