What is "buttercups"

Usage examples of "buttercups".

Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.

The buttercups were cold in her hands, the green juice bleeding onto her fingers.

He made the buttercups a bright yellow and was just starting into the grass when Mr.

On the lower slopes, the vivid green of spring was already ripening to summer gold, but the heights around Hierosolyma were bright with new leaf and meadows jewelled with red buttercups, with little pinkish-purple orchids and hairy flax and a host of other flowers.

The air smelled of the hot, sun-dried pastures sprinkled with buttercups, where occasional cattle grazed.

If any one had gone round the fields on old May-day, the 13th, _his_ May-day, they might have found the deep blue bird's-eye veronica, anemones, star-like stitchworts, cowslips, buttercups, lesser celandine, daisies, white blackthorn, and gorse in bloom--in short, a list enough to make a page bright with colour, though the wind might be bitter.

Her screen blossoms into panoramic visions of this Earth: penguins porpoising through Antarctic whitecaps, a whole meadow of buttercups opening to the morning sunlight on some alpine meadow, streams of light-touched motes hovering throughout the world of the tropics, mists and steam, glaciers and insects, the eyes of an ocelot, the clashing tusks of love-smitten musk oxen.