WATER BUTTERCUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water buttercup mean? 

• WATER BUTTERCUP (noun)
  The noun WATER BUTTERCUP has 1 sense:

1. plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America

  Familiarity information: WATER BUTTERCUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER BUTTERCUP (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup; water crowfoot

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)