Definition of Ranunculus aquatilis

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranunculus Aquatilis

Ranke's angle
Ranke's formula
Rankin
Rankin's clamp
Rankine
Rankine cycle
Rankine scale
Ransohoff's sign
Ranter
Ranterism
Ranters
Rantism
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculales
Ranunculus acris
Ranunculus aquatilis
Ranunculus bulbosus
Ranunculus ficaria
Ranunculus flammula
Ranunculus glaberrimus
Ranunculus lingua
Ranunculus lyalii
Ranunculus occidentalis
Ranunculus repens
Ranunculus sceleratus
Ranvier's crosses
Ranvier's disks
Ranvier's node
Ranvier's plexus
Ranvier's segment

Literary usage of Ranunculus aquatilis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... as in ranunculus aquatilis, but opposite or almost verticillate; upper about an inch and a half long, broad-lanceolate, attenuate at each extremity, ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"ranunculus aquatilis var. divaricatus A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 7. 1856. Similar to the preceding species, but the leaves are shorter, less than i' long, ..."

3. Report (1913)
"ranunculus aquatilis, Lin., Var. caespitosus, DC Rooting in mud. Frequent. 188. Ranunculus fascicularis ..."

4. Botany of the Northern and Middle States; Or A Description of the Plants by Lewis Caleb Beck (1833)
"... capillary, as in ranunculus aquatilis; upper ones about an inch and a half long, broadly lanceolate, attenuated at each extremity, deeply serrated, ..."

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