butterflower

Other forms of butterflower

plural

butterflowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about butterflower

What does butterflower mean?

butterflower means "any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus".

How many syllables are in butterflower?

butterflower has 4 syllables: but-ter-flo-wer. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for butterflower?

Close synonyms include buttercup, butter-flower, 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 butterflower a common word?

butterflower 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.