Also known as buttercup, it is sweet but not watery and its texture reminds me of chestnuts. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
You lack the intellect to go toe to toe with nov, "buttercup"!. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Memory Selections] Reference
Not a buttercup or daisy, not a single verdant blade. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
This little buttercup was bound to join the heavenly choir. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Epitaphs] Reference
Was resting near this buttercup who wished she was a daisy. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Memory Selections] Reference
Why do you build me up, buttercup baby, just to get me down?. From Wordnik.com. [2003-09-14 : To Certain Somebody] Reference
Be the best buttercup you can, and think no flower above you. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Memory Selections] Reference
The first player lays out one from his pile, say a buttercup. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
For sciatica the tincture of the bulbous buttercup has proved very helpful. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Sophie Zavaglia got buttercup so. that is why I'm about to do this next thing. From Wordnik.com. [maybmemorys Diary Entry] Reference
"I have seen a fearful sight to-day," he would say, -- "I have seen a buttercup.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
In the buttercup and mustard the calyx is divided into separate parts called sepals. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
The type of this is a common British plant, most nearly related to the field buttercup. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
First words I hear from Todd is "buckleup buttercup" Looks like it's going to be a busy day. From Wordnik.com. [miss-k2 Diary Entry] Reference
As familiar examples of this group, we may select the buttercup, rose, pink, and many others. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
They, the men, licked her buttercup dust from their fingers until even their nails were clean. From Wordnik.com. [Becoming an Oates Girl] Reference
He looked like a live buttercup, so fresh and bright, his sunny sandy curls blowing in the soft breeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
In the buttercup will be found a large number of small pistils, each consisting of an ovary and stigma. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
Two anemones, one buttercup, three willows and one senecio seem to be confined to the White River country. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
Her eyes were the same buttercup blue as the flowers on the fine china, with their own translucence and history. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Vault of Jean Maria Schwartz in Heaven] Reference
Even Dinah sniffed a little when she fed the kittens and didn't have "dat little buttercup around to tease dem.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
Other wild flowers suitable for Form I are buttercup, spring beauty, dog's-tooth violet, hepatica, and trillium. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
It was on a hill, and the view from the front looked over a lovely expanse of buttercup meadows, and the river beyond. From Wordnik.com. ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference
As it is not an uncommon practice to stick a daisy on a buttercup, it is to be hoped no hoax was played off on M. Romer. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
"What's that about a buttercup?" asked a merry voice behind her, so unexpectedly that Tabitha nearly fell out of the hammock. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha at Ivy Hall] Reference
Lunelle had spent her life a buttercup, slender and bright and cheerful and light, her happiness smudging the men who held her. From Wordnik.com. [Becoming an Oates Girl] Reference
It is the globe flower, so called from the rounded shape of the corolla; it is one of the buttercup family, as you will, perhaps, guess. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Class lessons based on a flowering garden plant, as pansy, aster, nasturtium; study of a field plant, as buttercup, goldenrod, dandelion. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
I have a little kitten named "buttercup," and she is just as sweet and pretty as any buttercup that ever grew, and so good and so cunning. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
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