Ranunculus Definition

rə-nŭngkyə-ləs
ranunculi, ranunculuses
noun
Webster's New World
Any of numerous plants of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow or white usually five-petaled flowers, and including the buttercups and the crowfoots.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • genus Ranunculus
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the tribe Ranunculeae "” the ranunculuses, including the buttercup etc.

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Other Word Forms of Ranunculus

Noun

Singular:
ranunculus
Plural:
ranunculi, ranunculuses

Origin of Ranunculus

  • New Latin Rānunculus genus name from Latin rānunculus a kind of medicinal plant diminutive of rāna frog perhaps of imitative origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin ranunculus (“little frog")

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin rānunculus.

    From Wiktionary

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