different between ranunculaceous vs ranunculus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n??kj??le???s/

Etymology

Ranunculaceae +? -ous

Adjective

ranunculaceous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Of or pertaining to buttercups
   • 1993, Klaus Kubitzki, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, p. 349.

     The stomata are ranunculaceous (anomocytic) and confined to the lower leaflet surface.

English

Etymology

From Latin r?nunculus.

Noun

ranunculus (plural ranunculuses or ranunculi)

1. Any plant of the genus Ranunculus; the buttercup or crowfoot.

Synonyms

• (genus Ranunculus): buttercup, crowfoot

Related terms

• ranunculaceous

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin r?nunculus.

Noun

ranunculus

1. (rare, botany) ranunculus (plant of the genus Ranunculus)

Declension

Synonyms

• leinikki

Latin

Etymology

The diminutive of r?na (“frog”) +? -unculus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ra??nun.ku.lus/, [rä??n??k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ra?nun.ku.lus/, [r??nu?kulus]

Noun

r?nunculus m (genitive r?nuncul?); second declension

1. a little frog, polliwog, tadpole
2. buttercup, crowfoot (Ranunculus)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• r?na
• r?nula

Descendants

• ? Catalan: ranuncle
• ? English: ranunculus
• French: grenouille, ? renoncule
• Italian: ranocchio, ranuncolo
• Sicilian: larunchia, larunchiu, rarunchia
• Spanish: renacuajo
• Translingual: Ranunculus

References

• ranunculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ranunculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ranunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette