butter-flower
- noun
:
mantequilla de flores
- The field was covered with bright butter-flowers swaying gently in the breeze.
Examples
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Children often pick butter-flowers to weave into garlands.
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I picked a butter-flower for my mother.
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Some people believe that butter-flowers can predict sunny weather.
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The garden is full of beautiful butter-flowers.
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The field was covered with bright butter-flowers swaying gently in the breeze.
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Children often pick butter-flowers to weave into garlands.
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Some people believe that butter-flowers can predict sunny weather.
Synonyms
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1.9
A wild plant with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers
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9.5
A small plant with bright yellow or white flowers like a buttercup
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8.9
A small plant with bright yellow flowers and divided leaves like a bird's foot
A small wild plant with bright yellow flowers
A small plant with bright yellow flowers that look like cups
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Butter-flower comes from the bright yellow color of the bloom: the butter part refers to 'butter' because the flower looks like a small bit of butter, and the flower part simply names it, much like the familiar word buttercup. So the name helps you remember these small yellow Ranunculus as little 'butter' flowers.