WordNet
buttercup family
n. a family of Ranunculaceae [syn: Ranunculaceae, family Ranunculaceae, crowfoot family]
Usage examples of "buttercup family".
Akelei: a five-petalled flower of the buttercup family, from the Latin Aquilegia.
Golden Seal belongs to the Buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, though its leaves and fruit somewhat resemble those of the Raspberry and the Rubus genus generally.
The so- called Winter Aconite, Aeranthis hyemalis, is not a true Aconite, though closely allied, being also a member of the Buttercup family, whose blossoms it more nearly resembles.