ranunculus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of ranunculus
C16: from Latin: tadpole, from rāna a frog
Example Sentences
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Tables were dressed in green linens and had seasonal spring bouquets featuring butterfly ranunculus, phlox, and lily of the valley.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
On March 1, the property alongside I-5 opens for its annual springtime seasonal celebration, with color and scent supplied by 55 acres of ranunculus flowers that typically bloom for six to eight weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
Everyone in her group was laden with two or three cone-shaped bundles — a couple dozen each of ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, spray roses and large roses in ivory and white.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
For a recent breakfast in London, she used silver dessert bowls to anchor spindly arrangements of chocolate cosmos, pink scabiosa, ranunculus and white anemone.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Monkshood grew there, also black and yellow clematis, rhubarb, ranunculus and primulas of different kinds.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
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