lesser celandine

Questions about lesser celandine

What is another word for lesser celandine?

It depends which lesser celandine you mean. In the sense “perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles”, the synonyms are pilewort, Ranunculus ficaria. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of lesser celandine?

WordNet records no antonym for lesser celandine. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for lesser celandine come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of lesser celandine

• Full entry for lesser celandineAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lesser celandineWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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