RANUNCULUS (ranunculi)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ranunculi   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ranunculus mean? 

• RANUNCULUS (noun)
  The noun RANUNCULUS has 1 sense:

1. annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot

  Familiarity information: RANUNCULUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANUNCULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ranunculus; Ranunculus

Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("Ranunculus" is a member of...):

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