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Buttercup family   /bˈətərkˌəp fˈæməli/   Listen
Buttercup family

noun
1.
A family of Ranunculaceae.  Synonyms: crowfoot family, family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae.






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"Buttercup family" Quotes from Famous Books



... paramount importance on many lines of evolution of the animal as well as of the vegetable kingdom. It is often assumed that monocotyledons are descended from some lower group of dicotyledons, probably allied to that which includes the buttercup family. On this view the monocotyledons must be assumed to have lost the cambium and all its influence on secondary growth, the differentiation of the flower into calyx and corolla, the second cotyledon or ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



Words linked to "Buttercup family" :   Cimicifuga, Trollius, Aconitum, genus Adonis, order Ranunculales, Laccopetalum, genus Anemonella, Thalictrum, Helleborus, Actaea, genus Aquilegia, genus Laccopetalum, genus Helleborus, crowfoot family, genus Nigella, Caltha, order Ranales, Hydrastis, Consolida, genus Actaea, genus Hydrastis, genus Anemone, genus Ranunculus, magnoliid dicot family, Trautvetteria, Ranunculaceae, genus Aconitum, Anemonella, Isopyrum, Ranales, genus Pulsatilla, genus Clematis, genus Trollius, Pulsatilla, genus Consolida, genus Coptis, genus Isopyrum, genus Delphinium, genus Cimicifuga, Eranthis, Ranunculales, genus Eranthis, Ranunculus, adonis, genus Caltha, genus Hepatica, genus Thalictrum, Coptis, genus Trautvetteria



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