buttercup : Idioms & Phrases

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bermuda buttercup

  • noun South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers
    Oxalis pes-caprae; Oxalis cernua; English-weed.
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buttercup family

  • noun a family of Ranunculaceae
    family Ranunculaceae; crowfoot family; Ranunculaceae.
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buttercup squash

  • noun plant bearing somewhat drum-shaped fruit having dark green rind with greyish markings
  • noun drum-shaped squash with dark green rind marked in silver or grey
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celery-leaved buttercup

  • noun annual herb growing in marshy places
    Ranunculus sceleratus; cursed crowfoot.
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common buttercup

  • noun perennial Old World buttercup with golden to sulphur yellow flowers in late spring to early summer; naturalized in North America
    Ranunculus bulbosus.
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creeping buttercup

  • noun perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
    creeping crowfoot; Ranunculus repens.
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giant buttercup

  • noun spectacular perennial native of wet montane grasslands of Peru; formerly included in genus Ranunculus
    Laccopetalum giganteum.
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meadow buttercup

  • noun perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
    meadow buttercup; tall crowfoot; tall buttercup; Ranunculus acris.
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sagebrush buttercup

  • noun small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America
    Ranunculus glaberrimus.
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tall buttercup

  • noun perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
    meadow buttercup; tall crowfoot; tall buttercup; Ranunculus acris.
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tall field buttercup

  • noun perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
    meadow buttercup; tall crowfoot; tall buttercup; Ranunculus acris.
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water buttercup

  • noun plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America
    water crowfoot; Ranunculus aquatilis.
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western buttercup

  • noun perennial of western North America
    Ranunculus occidentalis.
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