ranunculus

/ rəˈnʌŋkjʊləs /

noun

any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Ranunculus , having finely divided leaves and typically yellow five-petalled flowers. The genus includes buttercup, crowfoot, spearwort, and lesser celandine

C16: from Latin: tadpole, from rāna a frog

Quantities of this ranunculus come floating down the Hogsmill brook, at times catching against the bridge.

Captain Sabine fell in with a ranunculus in full flower on the western side of the island, evidently the most genial.

Every yellow ranunculus is called a "butter-cup," every large white umbellifer a "hemlock."

Among early summer flowers in open borders few are prettier than the double-flowered kinds of ranunculus of the herbaceous type.

Monkshood grew there, also black and yellow clematis, rhubarb, ranunculus and primulas of different kinds.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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