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giant buttercup

giant buttercup

8.9
A large flowering plant that grows in wet mountain grasslands of Peru
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : ranúnculo gigante
  • Unlike smaller varieties, the giant buttercup has impressive blooms and can grow over a meter tall.

Examples

  • The Andean meadows are home to the rare giant buttercup that blooms each spring.

  • Botanists were excited to find a patch of giant buttercup in the remote Peruvian highlands.

  • The giant buttercup blooms beautifully in spring.

  • Have you seen a giant buttercup before?

  • Botanists were excited to find a patch of giant buttercup in the remote Peruvian highlands.

  • The Andean meadows are home to the rare giant buttercup that blooms each spring.

  • Unlike smaller varieties, the giant buttercup has impressive blooms and can grow over a meter tall.

Synonyms

Laccopetalum giganteum
vsgiant buttercup
  • Specialized
9.9

A large flowering plant that lives many years in wet Peruvian mountain grasslands

is the common English name for the same plant

How Big

giant buttercup
  • US
8.9
buttercup
20 1.9

Surface Forms

giant buttercup singular
giant buttercups plural

Morphology

giant + buttercup

This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'giant' simply specifies a very large instance of a 'buttercup' (a yellow, cup-shaped flower). Adjectival modification of a noun is a transparent and cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Giant buttercup describes a very large buttercup plant. The word buttercup comes from the plant's shiny yellow petals that look like butter, and giant tells you it is unusually big, so the name means 'a very large buttercup'.