Crossword-Solution: RANUNCULACEOUS
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| Ranunculaceous | a. | Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), 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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| pertaining to or like buttercups; belonging to buttercup family of plants | 1 answer |
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Alfred Austin says, "With windflower honey are my tresses smoothed." It is also called the Passover Flower, because blossoming at Easter; and it belongs to the Ranunculaceous order of plants.
For example, the order of which the Buttercup or Crowfoot genus, _Ranunculus_, is the representative, takes from it the name of _Ranunculaceæ_; meaning _Plantæ Ranunculaceæ_ when written out in full, that is, Ranunculaceous Plants.
NIGELLA, n[=i]-jel'a, _n._ a genus of ranunculaceous plants, with finely dissected leaves, and whitish, blue, or yellow flowers, often almost concealed by their leafy involucres--_Nigella damascena_, called Love-in-a-mist, Devil-in-a-bush, and Ragged Lady.