ranunculus's Usage Examples:

Of wild flowers the most common are yellow daisies, poppies, irises, asphodels and ranunculuses.

Growing under the shade of these are several varieties of rose, honeysuckle, currant, gooseberry, hawthorn, rhododendron and a luxuriant herbage, among which the ranunculus family is important for frequency and number of genera.

Water-cress, sweet flag, flowering rush, several potamogetons, water milfoil, water ranunculus, and the reedy sweet watergrass (Glyceria aquatica) rank amongst the criteria of excellence.

Protect tulips, ranunculuses and anemones from the mid-day sun, and from rains and winds.

Plant anemone and ranunculus roots and the corms of gladiolus.

Take up the remaining tuberous roots, such as anemones, ranunculuses, 'c.

The florists' ranunculus is a cultivated form of R.