RANUNCULUS AQUATILIS

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Meaning:

Plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America

Synonyms:

Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup; water crowfoot

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Ranunculus aquatilis" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Holonyms ("Ranunculus aquatilis" is a member of...):

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

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