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TALL BUTTERCUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tall buttercup mean?
• TALL BUTTERCUP (noun)
The noun TALL BUTTERCUP has 1 sense:
1. perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
Familiarity information: TALL BUTTERCUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
meadow buttercup; Ranunculus acris; tall buttercup; tall crowfoot; tall field buttercup
Hypernyms ("tall buttercup" is a kind of...):
butter-flower; buttercup; butterflower; crowfoot; goldcup; kingcup (any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus)
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