tall field buttercup
- noun
- UK
:
ranúnculo alto
- She identified the wildflower as a tall field buttercup thanks to its bright yellow petals.
Examples
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The tall field buttercup blooms in meadows and pastures each spring.
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Local farmers often remove tall field buttercup because it can be toxic to livestock.
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Look at that tall field buttercup!
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The tall field buttercup blooms beautifully in spring.
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She identified the wildflower as a tall field buttercup thanks to its bright yellow petals.
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The tall field buttercup blooms in meadows and pastures each spring.
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Local farmers often remove tall field buttercup because it can be toxic to livestock.
Synonyms
A common yellow buttercup that grows in meadows in Europe and North America
A European wild flower that comes back every year with bright yellow spring flowers
A wild plant with tall stems and bright yellow flowers
A wildflower with bright yellow spring flowers found in meadows
A wild plant with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward descriptive noun phrase: 'buttercup' names the plant and 'tall' (height) plus 'field' (habitat) specify which kind of buttercup. This compositional modifier + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and fully derivable by a B1 learner who knows the three constituent words.
Etymology
Tall field buttercup The name tall field buttercup comes from the plant's look and place: it is a tall yellow buttercup that grows in fields, and people said its bright color looked like 'butter'. So the name helps you picture a bright wildflower in meadows and explains why farmers remove it, because it can poison animals.
