noun. Any of numerous herbs of the genus Ranunculus, native chiefly to temperate and cold regions and having acrid juice, often toothed or lobed leaves, and usually yellow or white flowers with numerous pistils.

noun. A name given to most of the common species of Ranunculus with bright-yellow cup-shaped flowers and divided leaves, such as

noun. A small, square sugar-plum, colored in a variety of tints, and somewhat creamy inside.

noun. Ranunculus septentrionalis, a vigorous species growing on wet ground in the eastern half of the United States, with the later branches prostrate and rooting.

noun. A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly Ranunculus bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

noun. Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.

noun. Any flower of the genus Narcissus; a daffodil

noun. any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus

"They will gladly accept the conclusion that the marvellous qualities and activities of living things and that inscrutable wonder, the mind of man, are outcomes of the orderly process of Nature no less than are the miracles which we call a buttercup, a rock crystal, a glacier, the noon-day sun!"

acrid buttercup  bulbous buttercup  buttercup oil-beetle  creeping buttercup  marsh-buttercup  

Herb  herbaceous plant  

celery-leaved buttercup  common buttercup  creeping buttercup  creeping crowfoot  cursed crowfoot  

aconite  anemone  aster  borage  columbine  

ranunculus  

butterflower  cuckoobud  golden cup  kingcup