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    WATER BUTTERCUP

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup; water crowfoot

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("water buttercup" is a kind of...):

    aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

    Holonyms ("water buttercup" is a member of...):

    genus Ranunculus; Ranunculus (annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot)

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