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单词 buttercup
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  • Buttercups, violets, and many other blossoms were in abundance.
  • Poppies and buttercups had taken root in the banks of earth heaped up on either side of the communication trench.
  • The flowers we love best are yellow: the cowslip, the daffodil, the crocus, the buttercup, half the daisy, the honeysuckle, and the loveliest rose.
  • The meadows are yellow with buttercups, and the birds fly out of the gold.
  • They fed in the sunshine with the golden buttercups up above their knees, literally wading in gold, their horns as they held their heads low just visible among the flowers.

Examplesofbuttercup

buttercup
His most successful hybrid is abuttercupwith a lambent golden brown colour, that he is marketing under the name of honeycup.
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Now, it is true that it appears to be impossible to interruptbuttercupin any way at all.
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I asked for abuttercup, but you brought me a margarine one.
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We even have examples of buttercups being flown out for use in biology examinations because they are not available in the country concerned.
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Weeds such as buttercups and docks will come again the following summer.
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They leave gates unlatched after they have been into fields to pick a few buttercups and, as a result, animals get on to the highway.
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Many people have idyllic ideas of small family farms with buttercups and daisies.
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But when the time comes for the rest of us to gather the buttercups, the old people will be pushing up the daisies.
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Perhaps he has a point about turning the marginal farms into bed-and-breakfast places for the tourist, where they could go and admire the buttercups.
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He grows beautiful buttercups which look very pretty in among his grass.
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Some of us are old enough to remember what we were once subjected to—cutting up buttercups and sharing one piece of apparatus between a class of 30.
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It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 60100 cm tall (the largest species ofbuttercup), with a stout rhizome.
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A common plant in wet areas is alpine foxtail and buttercups, while polar willow is common in wet areas.
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This is rather exceptional for a member of thebuttercupfamily.
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It is one of the earliest buttercups to flower.
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