WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
but′tercup fam′ily,
- Plant Biologythe plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
'buttercup family' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
prairie crocus
- aconite
- American globeflower
- anemone
- aquilegia
- baneberry
- black snakeroot
- blue jasmine
- bugbane
- celandine
- cohosh
- columbine
- fennelflower
- field larkspur
- globeflower
- goldenseal
- goldthread
- hellebore
- hepatica
- Japanese anemone
- Japanese clematis
- larkspur
- lesser celandine
- love-in-a-mist
- marsh marigold
- meadow rue
- monkshood
- pasqueflower
- poppy anemone
- ranunculaceous
- red larkspur
- rue anemone
- traveler's-joy
- wild monkshood
- windflower
- winter aconite