water buttercup

Thesaurus

Noun

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water buttercup - plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North AmericaRanunculus aquatilis, water crowfootgenus Ranunculus, Ranunculus - annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfootaquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth