buttercup

[ UK /bˈʌtəkˌʌp/ ]
[ US /ˈbətɝˌkəp/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus
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How To Use buttercup In A Sentence

  • Here we find a good deal of open ground, with thickets of shrubby Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries, The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
  • Place a buttercup squash tart on a plate with a serving of salad next to the tart.
  • Others are swamp blue aster, a pink turtlehead, speckled joe-pye weed, great lobelia, Pennsylvania buttercup, and several kinds of sedges.
  • On the grorss below where the buttercups blow, along of the innercent sheep! Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
  • If you have been pining for Dales meadows brilliant with flowers the ones by the quiet lane are fair enough, yellow with buttercups, and the verges red with campions.
  • Axyually, teh Prinsis naem wuz Buttercup, n hur inamorato wuz Westly. My name is not - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Radially symmetrical flowers, such as buttercups and tulips, have a single type of petal arranged the same way all around a center.
  • Daffodils, wild hyacinths and tulips, snowdrops, bluebells, daisies and buttercups littered the earth.
  • Europeans, and it is certainly grand and interesting and in a certain sense beautiful, but not the calm, sweet, warm beauty of our own fields, and there is none of the brightness of our own flowers; a field of buttercups, a hill of gorse or of heather, a bank of foxgloves and a hedge of wild roses and purple vetches surpass in _beauty_ anything I have ever seen in the tropics. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • Some rare poppies and buttercups have also been found in addition to small amounts of arboreal material such as larch needles, willows, and tree bark. Phil Jones and the Dutiful Comrades « Climate Audit
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