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Definition of Buttercup
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus.
Group relationships: Genus Ranunculus, Ranunculus
Specialized synonyms: Meadow Buttercup, Ranunculus Acris, Tall Buttercup, Tall Crowfoot, Tall Field Buttercup, Common Buttercup, Ranunculus Bulbosus, Mount Cook Lily, Mountain Lily, Ranunculus Lyalii, Ranunculus Occidentalis, Western Buttercup, Creeping Buttercup, Creeping Crowfoot, Ranunculus Repens, Celery-leaved Buttercup, Cursed Crowfoot, Ranunculus Sceleratus
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Definition of Buttercup
1. n. A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.
Definition of Buttercup
1. Noun. Any of many herbs, of the genus ''Ranunculus'', having yellow flowers; the crowfoot. ¹
2. Noun. Any flower of the genus ''Narcissus''; a daffodil ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Buttercup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"ARIA For I'm called Little buttercup, dear Little buttercup, ... Then buy of your
buttercup — dear Little buttercup, Sailors should never bo shy ; So buy of ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"(4) Little buttercup is the bum boat woman in* HMs Pinafore' (}.r. ... buttercup and
Daisy. A musical comedy in three acts, written by GEORGE DANCE, ..."
3. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1917)
"buttercup Margarine Co. (1917) 2 Ch. 1. The plaintiff carried on a large provision
business, and had 150 shops where he sold butter, margarine, eggs, tea, ..."
4. The Eugene Field Book: Verses, Stories, and Letters for School Reading by Eugene Field, Mary Elizabeth Burt (1900)
"buttercup, POPPY, FORGET-ME-NOT buttercup, Poppy, Forget-me-not— These three ...
buttercup gambolled all day long, Sharing the little one's mirth and song; ..."
5. Popular tales from the Norse by Peter C Asbjornsen (1859)
"buttercup. /"\NCE on a time there was an old wife who sat and baked. Now, you
must know that this old wife had a little son, who was so plump and fat, ..."
6. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE COMMON buttercup Teacher's Story "The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, ...
The buttercup sepals arc five elongated cups, about one-half as long as the ..."
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