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buttercup Definition

but·ter·cup (-kup′)

adjective

designating a large, widespread family (Ranunculaceae, order Ranunculales) of dicotyledonous flowering plants, including peonies, aconites, and anemones

noun

any of a genus (Ranunculus) of normally yellow-flowered plants of the buttercup family, common in meadows and wet places

buttercup Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • creep: Deep plowing may kill plants buried below 15 cm but creeping buttercup can survive shallow burial.
  • rattle: The herbs include pignut, adder's-tongue, ribwort plantain, and red clover with yellow rattle, bulbous buttercup and orchids.
  • eat: Cattle avoid eating the buttercup, which then takes advantage of the cropped ground around it to spread.

Preposition: with

  • flower: A common early flowering plant related to the buttercup with glossy yellow flowers.

Adjective modifier

  • bulbous: Bulbous buttercup seldom persists in grass that is allowed to grow long enough to cut for hay or silage.
  • large: Most famous of these is Ranunculus lyallii, the largest buttercup in the world.
  • hairy: Cedric Gillings exhibited examples of the bulbous buttercup and for comparison, the much rarer hairy buttercup.
  • tall: Winter, J.B. ( 1976 ) Severe urticarial reaction in a dog following ingestion of tall field buttercup.
  • common: Luckily these three commonest buttercups were all on site, so at first it all seemed to be pretty straightforward!
  • other: Although it is usually avoided by stock creeping buttercup is more palatable than the other buttercups and may be grazed.

Modifies a noun

  • yellow: Attractive rich green foliage with large central splash of buttercup yellow.
  • flower: The obvious trail of yellow buttercup flowers winding down the hill follows the route of a well used path.
  • family: A member of the buttercup family, black cohosh is a large plant found in North America.
  • meadow: Cows in a buttercup meadow behind the cottages, to the east of Milton Rd.
  • seed: There is usually considerable persistence of creeping buttercup seed in soil under grassland.
  • plant: Creeping buttercup plants are attacked by a number of insects, fungi and grazing animals.

Noun used with modifier

  • meadow: In pasture, cutting will prevent meadow buttercup seeding.
  • corn: She notes " My parent's farm was one of the last sites in Lincolnshire for corn buttercup.
  • goldilocks: Then come the early purple orchids and goldilocks buttercups.
  • water: Water buttercup Water milfoil is effective for a small pond.
buttercup Quotes

I'm called little Buttercupödear Little Buttercup, Though I could never tell why.

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)