RANUNCULUS
\ɹanˈʌnkjʊləs], \ɹanˈʌnkjʊləs], \ɹ_a_n_ˈʌ_n_k_j_ʊ_l_ə_s]\
Definitions of RANUNCULUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Crow-foot or frog's-foot, a genus of flowering plants, including also the kingcups and buttercups among native plants-so called from the species which grow where frogs abound.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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.
By Robley Dunglison
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