buttercup family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.

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Example Sentences

One client favored a Clematis collection — a flower in the buttercup family with 300 varieties.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2021

Aconitum, part of the buttercup family, goes by various nicknames depending on the exact species - Monkshood, Wolfsbane, the Queen of Poisons, or Devil's Helmet.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2014

It is often assumed that monocotyledons are descended from some lower group of dicotyledons, probably allied to that which includes the buttercup family.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

It is of the buttercup family, and may be known as a white buttercup with a yellow centre.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various

It is the globe flower, so called from the rounded shape of the corolla; it is one of the buttercup family, as you will, perhaps, guess.

From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Houghton, W. (William)