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BUTTER-FLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butter-flower mean? 

BUTTER-FLOWER (noun)
  The noun BUTTER-FLOWER has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of the genus Ranunculusplay

  Familiarity information: BUTTER-FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUTTER-FLOWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

butter-flower; buttercup; butterflower; crowfoot; goldcup; kingcup

Hypernyms ("butter-flower" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butter-flower"):

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

common buttercup; Ranunculus bulbosus (perennial Old World buttercup with golden to sulphur yellow flowers in late spring to early summer; naturalized in North America)

Mount Cook lily; mountain lily; Ranunculus lyalii (showy white-flowered perennial of New Zealand)

Ranunculus occidentalis; western buttercup (perennial of western North America)

creeping buttercup; creeping crowfoot; Ranunculus repens (perennial European herb with long creeping stolons)

celery-leaved buttercup; cursed crowfoot; Ranunculus sceleratus (annual herb growing in marshy places)

Holonyms ("butter-flower" is a member of...):

genus Ranunculus; Ranunculus (annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot)


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