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Although the yellow-flowered bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus adequately fits the general description of ‘buttercup’, members of the genus Ranunculus with both white and red flowers may also be described as buttercups.

Any plant of the buttercup family with divided leaves and yellow flowers. (Genus Ranunculus, family Ranunculaceae.)

Species include the swamp buttercup (Ranunculus septentrionaiis) of the US.



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Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easily through it.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
One might instance the belief that two and two are four, that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time, nor one thing in two places, or that a particular buttercup that we are seeing is yellow.
The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context
said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: `I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context
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