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A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

Ord. Ranuneulaceas; Sex. Syst. Polyandria Polygynia. Diminutive of rana, 'a frog,' because found in marshy places where frogs abound. A genus of plants, most of the species of which, when taken internally, act as acrid poisons. See Poison. They are, also, acrid and vesicant, when applied to the skin, and have accordingly been often used as counter-irritants. The following species answer to this description.

The typical genus of the Ranunculaceae, the crowfoot or buttercup family which furnishes numerous drugs, many of which are poisonous. [Lat.]

n. [Latin] A genus of plants embracing many species, some of them beautiful flowering plants diversified with many rich colours ; crow-foot ; butter-cup.