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# buttercup

«buttercup» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small wild plant with shiny, bright yellow cup-shaped…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a buttercup, buttercups)

### meaning for a pupil

A buttercup is a small wild plant with shiny, bright yellow cup-shaped flowers, common in fields and lawns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons buttercups are a common wildflower to identify on nature walks; they are mildly poisonous, so animals avoid them and children should not eat them. In everyday life children play a game: hold a buttercup under someone's chin, and if it glows yellow, «you like butter».

### examples

- The field was full of yellow buttercups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#x1)
- Hold a buttercup under my chin! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#x2)
- Buttercups are poisonous, so don't eat them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#x3)
- Cows leave the buttercups and eat the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#x4)
- We counted the petals: this buttercup has five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#x5)
- Buttercups open in the sunshine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#x6)
- And the buttercups sparkled gayly, and looked again at Gerda. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/#x7)

### note

Countable: buttercups. One word. The chin game is just fun: the yellow glow comes from light reflecting off the shiny petals, not from liking butter. A buttercup is a flower, not a cup of butter.

### In the corpora

- [Do not put wild plants or flowers in your mouth; foxgloves, daffodils and buttercups are poisonous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «buttercup» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttercup/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.