tall buttercup
- noun
- UK
:
ranúnculo alto
- The field was filled with blooming tall buttercup plants in early spring.
Examples
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Gardeners often remove tall buttercup because it can spread rapidly and outcompete native species.
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The tall buttercup blooms in spring.
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As a child, she liked to pick wild tall buttercup flowers from the meadow.
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I saw a beautiful tall buttercup in the field.
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The field was filled with blooming tall buttercup plants in early spring.
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As a child, she liked to pick wild tall buttercup flowers from the meadow.
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Gardeners often remove tall buttercup because it can spread rapidly and outcompete native species.
Synonyms
A common yellow buttercup that grows in meadows in Europe and North America
A wildflower with bright yellow spring flowers found in meadows
A tall wild plant with bright yellow spring flowers that can poison farm animals
A European wild flower that comes back every year with bright yellow spring flowers
A wild plant with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the adjective 'tall' (higher in stature) modifying 'buttercup' (a yellow, cup-like flower): it simply denotes a taller-than-typical buttercup. This is a standard adjective+noun composition common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Tall buttercup comes from a simple picture: buttercup names the small, bright yellow flowers that look like a little 'cup' of butter, and tall shows this species grows higher than other buttercups. So the name means a taller kind of the yellow 'buttercup'.
