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    GENUS RANUNCULUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfootplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Ranunculus; Ranunculus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Ranunculus" is a kind of...):

    magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Ranunculus"):

    butter-flower; buttercup; butterflower; crowfoot; goldcup; kingcup (any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus)

    Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup; water crowfoot (plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America)

    lesser celandine; pilewort; Ranunculus ficaria (perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles)

    lesser spearwort; Ranunculus flammula (semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand)

    Ranunculus glaberrimus; sagebrush buttercup (small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America)

    greater spearwort; Ranunculus lingua (semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears)

    Holonyms ("genus Ranunculus" is a member of...):

    buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

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