butter-flower

Questions about butter-flower

What does butter-flower mean?

butter-flower means "any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus".

How many syllables are in butter-flower?

butter-flower has 4 syllables and divides as but-ter--flo-wer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for butter-flower?

Close synonyms include buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butter-flower a common word?

butter-flower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.