Usually means: Bright yellow flower, cup-shaped.
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  1. buttercup: Merriam-Webster
  2. buttercup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buttercup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buttercup: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buttercup: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buttercup, buttercup: Wordnik
  7. buttercup: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. buttercup: Wiktionary
  9. buttercup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buttercup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buttercup: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buttercup, buttercup: Dictionary.com
  13. buttercup: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buttercup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls), Buttercup (Toy Story), Buttercup (disambiguation), Buttercup (fairy tale), Buttercup (song), Buttercup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buttercup: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buttercup: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buttercup: Rhymezone
  19. Buttercup: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buttercup: FreeDictionary.org
  21. buttercup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. buttercup: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. buttercup: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. buttercup: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. buttercup: Encyclopedia

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  2. buttercup: Medical dictionary

(Note: See buttercups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.
noun:  Any flower of the genus Narcissus; a daffodil.
noun:  Affectionate or ironic term of address.
noun:  Short for buttercup squash. [A variety of squash with a flattish top, dark green skin, and dense yellow-orange flesh.]

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