buttercups
- plural of buttercup.
Example Sentences
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In the city surrounded by fields of buttercups, collapsed buildings and gutted shops follow one another, from bakeries to florists.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
At Los Padres National Forest along the Central California coast, swaths of California poppies, California buttercups, purple shooting stars and goldfields fill the slopes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Before long it bloomed with poppies, buttercups and Queen Anne's lace.
From Scientific American • Sep. 1, 2023
The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2019
It passes by fields of flowers: red poppies, blue and yellow wildflowers, buttercups, oeillets, wild roses, and sunflowers, Vincent’s favorite.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
