buttercup
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.
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