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RANUNCULUS
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Irregular inflected form: ranunculi
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot
Synonyms:
genus Ranunculus; Ranunculus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ranunculus" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Ranunculus"):
butter-flower; buttercup; butterflower; crowfoot; goldcup; kingcup (any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus)
Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup; water crowfoot (plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America)
lesser celandine; pilewort; Ranunculus ficaria (perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles)
lesser spearwort; Ranunculus flammula (semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand)
Ranunculus glaberrimus; sagebrush buttercup (small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America)
greater spearwort; Ranunculus lingua (semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears)
Holonyms ("Ranunculus" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
