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‖ ranunculus Bot.|rəˌnʌŋkjʊləs|
Pl. -culuses, (7–8 -us's, 8 -usses) and -culi.
[L., a little frog, tadpole; also a medicinal plant, perh. crowfoot (Pliny); dim. of rāna frog.]
a. (With capital initial.) A genus of plants (also called crowfoot) widely diffused in temperate regions; the common species with yellow flowers are popularly known by the name of buttercups; the usual cultivated species is R. asiaticus.
b. A plant belonging to this genus.
[1562Turner Herbal ii. 114 Ranunculus is called..in Englishe Crowfoot or kingcup.] 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxii. 415 There be foure kindes of Ranunculus, or Crowfoote. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 42, I have made..even a ranunculus itselfe, to grow..with water. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 39 A Root divided by Lumps or Clods, like the Ranunculus. 1767J. Abercrombie Ev. Man his own Gardener (1803) 45 Plant ranunculuses and anemonies in mild, dry, open weather. 1855E. S. Delamer Flower Garden (1861) 68 The florists' Ranunculus is the R. Asiaticus; but the genus is large, and several of the species, in their double varieties, are cultivated as border flowers.
attrib.1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3786/4 Divers kinds of double Ranunculos [sic] Roots. 1845Florist's Jrnl. 5 Although worms are always troublesome..in a garden, there is no bed..they are likely to deface more than the ranunculus bed. |