Word Meanings - BUTTERCUP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Yellowammer
  See Yellow-hammer.
• Yellowshins
  See Yellolegs.
• YELLOWBOOK
  In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Planter
  One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
• Yellowbill
  The American scoter.
• Yellowtail
  Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and w
• YELLOWCOVERED
  Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Golden-eye
  A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

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