buttercup

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The root of the buttercup is also a very favourite food of the pheasant, and they will eat greedily of acorns.

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  1. noun Any of numerous herbs of the genus Ranunculus, native chiefly to temperate and cold regions and having acrid juice, often toothed or lobed leaves, and usually yellow or white flowers with numerous pistils.

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  • The flowers were never crowded together like the buttercup, forming sheets of shining yellow, but grew two or three inches apart, each slender stern producing a single flower, which stood a couple of inches above the turf. —  Far Away And Long Ago
  • When Cindy McCain made her first appearance at the Republican National Convention, she was wearing a buttercup-yellow shirt dress with a flipped-up collar by Seventh Avenue designer Oscar de la Renta. —  Althouse
  • Conventional cucumbers and squashes like zucchini and buttercup are space hogs, so go for the new compact varieties designed specifically for containers. —  Thestar.com - Home Page
  • When she's in a bad mood ... buttercup: the anklet made me LOL. —  JessicarulestheUniverse
  • The second I read buttercup, it just didn't seem right.
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