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COMMON BUTTERCUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common buttercup mean?
• COMMON BUTTERCUP (noun)
The noun COMMON BUTTERCUP has 1 sense:
1. perennial Old World buttercup with golden to sulphur yellow flowers in late spring to early summer; naturalized in North America
Familiarity information: COMMON BUTTERCUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial Old World buttercup with golden to sulphur yellow flowers in late spring to early summer; naturalized in North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common buttercup; Ranunculus bulbosus
Hypernyms ("common buttercup" is a kind of...):
butter-flower; buttercup; butterflower; crowfoot; goldcup; kingcup (any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus)
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