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buttercup
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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but·ter·cup
/ ˈbətərˌkəp/
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n.
a poisonous herbaceous plant (genus Ranunculus) with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers, common in grassland and as a garden weed. The
buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) also includes anemones, celandines, aconites, clematises, and hellebores.
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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WALES: Scientists seeking buttercup counters; Petal tallies will show age of our landscapes.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/13/2008; 700+ words
; ...the proportion of buttercups in a field with...The creeping buttercup ranunculus repens...of the bulbous buttercup are sepals which...flower stalk. Buttercups are not the only...lots of flowering buttercups. Find out if they are the creeping buttercup - the ranunculus...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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A bloomin' project: Can the endangered autumn buttercup be saved?
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 9/28/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...endangered autumn buttercup. Here, in the...colony of autumn buttercups was first reported...preserve around the buttercups. In 1996, Utah's unique autumn buttercup (the Ranunculus...where the wild buttercups used to be. Whitham...when the autumn buttercup was born to bloom...
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Boston lawmaker mounts another offensive in battle of Buttercup Lane
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/10/1994; ; 700+ words
; The battle of Buttercup Lane rages on, as a powerful Beacon...transportation bond bill forbidding any use of Buttercup Lane for sewer construction access...which Finneran has attached a save-Buttercup-Lane measure -- continuing what...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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BUTTERCUPS AND HORSETAIL MEAN GET BUSY.(Life and Arts)(NORTHWEST GARDENS)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 5/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...where horsetail and buttercups flourish, another...critters such as buttercup and horsetail...tool that makes buttercup removal an active...out strings of buttercups with this cute...size and shape for buttercup roots. The Japanese...perfect for removing buttercups that have ...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Buttercups have a use after all - they can reveal the age of meadows.
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 6/30/2009; 700+ words
; BUTTERCUPS can be the...of creeping buttercup plants with...for every 100 buttercups in a field...The creeping buttercup was selected...meadow's buttercups. He selected...Similarly, buttercup mutations in...
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Spreading a little buttercup
Magazine article from: Southern Living; 4/1/1997; ; 607 words
; ...brightening your garden with creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens). Also called...either shade or sun. However, creeping buttercup is anything but rare once introduced to your garden. Running buttercup is more like it. Heed the advice of...
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Interview: Jim Habeck says buttercups herald early arrival of spring in Montana
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 1/20/2006; ; 642 words
; ...Interview: Jim Habeck says buttercups herald early arrival of spring...extra early this year. The buttercup, which typically should bloom...TREE: I looked down and saw buttercups. I was just literally amazed...where we have a collection of buttercups that spans a hundred years...
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Governer rejects bid to settle the Battle of Buttercup Lane
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/12/1994; ; 700+ words
; A legislative bid to save Dover's Buttercup Lane from sewer-construction traffic...Mattapan) forbidding the MWRA from using Buttercup Lane during a construction project...directing the MWRA to route trucks down Buttercup Lane during the 10 months of sewer construction...
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Buttercup Creative Introduces Necklace Necessities Product Line.
PR Newswire; 8/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Buttercup Creative today announced it has launched...item. Since its inception in May 2006, Buttercup Creative set out to design a jewelry...its presentation. It is the mission of Buttercup Creative to create products that will...
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GET A JUMP ON BUTTERCUP DURING A THAW.(Life and Arts)(NORTHWEST GARDENS)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 1/22/2004; 700+ words
; ...deadly grip. Creeping buttercup is a running clumper...are the glowing golden buttercups that appear in force come spring. However, buttercup is a mannerless plant...After a deep frost, buttercups pop out of the ground...
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Buttercup
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Buttercup Buttercups and crowfoots are...Many species of buttercups are native to North America. The wood buttercup ( Ranunculus abortivus...lapponicus ) and snow buttercup ( R. nivalis...species of Eurasian buttercups have been introduced...
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buttercup
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
buttercup or crowfoot, common name for the Ranunculaceae...into a single organ (see flower ). Many buttercups are aquatic plants, hence the Latin name...glossy yellow flowers (hence the name buttercup) and deeply cut leaves (supposedly resembling...
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Bermuda buttercup
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Bermuda buttercup See OXALIS .
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globeflower
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...plant of the genus Trollius of the family Ranunculaceae ( buttercup family), hardy perennials of north temperate meadows and...Their blossoms are larger than those of the familiar yellow buttercup and may be white, yellow, orange, or purple. T. europaeus...
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anemone
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...cultivated, of the genus Anemone of the family Ranunculaceae ( buttercup family). A rich legendary history has gained the anemone...Similar to the anemone is the wild rue anemone of another buttercup-family genus ( Anemonella or Syndesmon ). The pasqueflower...
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