Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ranunculaceous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ranunculaceous \Ra*nun`cu*la"ceous\, a. [See {Ranunculus}.]
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants
({Ranunculace[ae]}), of which the buttercup is the type, and
which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood,
larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.
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