Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
ranunculus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I realize that Flower Markets are a dime a dozen, all over France, but they are woefully rare here in the US – and never with such a profusion of ranunculi, mimosas, and anemones!
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
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I realize that Flower Markets are a dime a dozen, all over France, but they are woefully rare here in the US – and never with such a profusion of ranunculi, mimosas, and anemones!
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
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What a beautiful shot--and I love peonies and ranunculus ranunculi?
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Ranunculus ranunculi? have so many gorgeous colors to choose from...
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Rose was industriously weeding among the ranunculi.
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On such days she would usually go out into the fields or the marsh, often as far as two miles, and when she grew tired would sit down on the hurdle fence, where, lost in dreams, she would watch the ranunculi and red sorrel waving in the wind.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
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Numerous flowers are called Bachelor's Buttons, including daisies, globe flowers, pyrethrums, and different kinds of ranunculi, but here we have the "original and true;" probably it originated in some ancient English garden, as Gerarde says, "It groweth in the gardens of herbarists & louers of strange plants, whereof we have good plentie, but it groweth not wild anywhere."
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Sharon spread out before him like a carpet or rather a sea of flowers -- crocuses, narcissi, ranunculi, anemones, and especially the tall white Sharon lilies.
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And there were other melancholy flowers also: fleshy ranunculi with rusty tints, hyacinths and tuberoses that exhaled asphyxia and died from their own perfume.
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Fountains leap up into the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling in crystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs -- then rolling down through channels of marble, and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anemones, hypericums, and many-colored ranunculi.
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