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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large family of chiefly herbaceous plants, the Ranunculaceae, characterized by radially symmetrical, often showy flowers sometimes with numerous stamens, and including buttercup, clematis, columbine, and delphinium.
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- noun a family of Ranunculaceae
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