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Definition of Ranunculus aquatilis
1. Noun. Plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America.
Group relationships: Genus Ranunculus, Ranunculus
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranunculus Aquatilis
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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