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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several plants of the genus Caltha of the buttercup family, especially C. palustris, which grows in wetlands and has bright yellow flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A golden-flowered plant, Caltha palustris: in the United States also called cowslip. See Caltha and gowan.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus Caltha (Caltha palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See cowslip.

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  • noun Caltha palustris, a perennial plant with bright yellow flowers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups

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  • Not a marigold, it is a member of the buttercup family. Some species of marsh marigold bloom in the early spring in icy water.

    July 18, 2007