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Ranunculus   Listen
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Ranunculus  n.  (pl. E. ranunculuses, L. ranunculi)  (Bot.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (Ranunculus Asiaticus, Ranunculus aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.






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"Ranunculus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ranunculaceoe, so-called from the Latin rana, a frog, because the several varieties of this genus grow in moist places where frogs abound. Under the general name of Buttercups are included the creeping Ranunculus, of moist meadows; the Ranunculus acris, Hunger Weed, or Meadow Crowfoot, so named from the shape of the leaf (each of these two being also called King Cup), and the Ranunculus bulbosus mentioned above. "King-Cob" signifies a resemblance between the ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... two lactone groups; obtained from plants of the genus Anemone and genus Ranunculus, ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter



Words linked to "Ranunculus" :   Ranunculus sceleratus, Ranunculus glaberrimus, Ranunculus aquatilis, Ranunculus lingua, genus Ranunculus, greater spearwort, Ranunculus bulbosus, buttercup, pilewort, family Ranunculaceae, butter-flower, Ranunculus occidentalis, Ranunculus flammula, magnoliid dicot genus, sagebrush buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot family, water crowfoot, crowfoot, Ranunculus ficaria, Ranunculus acris, buttercup family, Ranunculus repens, lesser celandine, goldcup, water buttercup, kingcup, Ranunculaceae



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