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Definition of Meadow buttercup
1. Noun. Perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Butter-flower, Buttercup, Butterflower, Crowfoot, Goldcup, Kingcup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Buttercup
Literary usage of Meadow buttercup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"Our common English meadow buttercup, as everybody knows, is a tall golden -
flowered plant, abounding in meadows and pastures, and blossoming in early ..."
2. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"onized who introduces the magnificent wild flowers of foreign lands to our area
of Nature's garden. CROWFOOT FAMILY (Ranunculaceae) Common meadow buttercup; ..."
3. Botany for High Schools by George Francis Atkinson (1910)
"This study is made from the tall or meadow buttercup. It is common in fields and
roadsides, ... In the meadow buttercup the sepals are elliptical ..."
4. Botany for High Schhools by George Francis Atkinson (1912)
"This study is made from the tall or meadow buttercup. It is common in fields and
... In the meadow buttercup the sepals are elliptical in form and greenish. ..."
5. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"... the achenes somewhat compressed, and with short- pointed beaks. (Fig. 109.)
Meam of control FIG. 109. — meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris). ..."
6. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"Tall or meadow buttercup. (After Vasey.) shorter than the reflexed lobes of calyx.
Head of fruit globose. Common in moist soil, in woods, meadows, gardens, ..."
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