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
Marriott was quoted a price of $250 each for six arrangements from a florist; instead, she spent $550 on several dozen white ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, spray roses and large roses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
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
In the foreground the earth, still brown, and only just released from its long winter covering of snow, bore masses of small golden ranunculus and rose-hued primulas.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
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