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PRONUNCIATION OF LESSER CELANDINE

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Lesser celandine is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LESSER CELANDINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Lesser celandine

Lesser celandine is a low-growing, hairless perennial plant, with fleshy dark green, heart-shaped leaves. The plant is found throughout Europe and west Asia and is now introduced in North America, where it is often considered invasive. It prefers bare, damp ground and in the UK it can be seen as a common garden plant, an early harbinger of Spring. The flowers are distinctive and bright yellow. Ranunculus ficaria exists in both diploid and tetraploid forms which are very similar in appearance. However, the tetraploid type prefer more shady locations and frequently develops bulbils at the base of the stalk. These two variants are sometimes referred to as distinct sub-species, R. ficaria ficaria and R. ficaria bulbifer respectively. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, celandine comes from the Latin chelidonia, meaning swallow: it was said that the flowers bloomed when the swallows returned and faded when they left. The name Ranunculus is Late Latin for "little frog or tadpole," from rana "frog" and a diminutive ending.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LESSER CELANDINE

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lesser Antillean iguana
Lesser Antilles
lesser koodoo
lesser kudu
lesser panda
lesser periwinkle
lesser scaup
lesser spearwort
lesser spotted dogfish
lesser spotted woodpecker
Lesser Sunda Islands
lesser weever
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lesser-known

WORDS THAT END LIKE LESSER CELANDINE

alabandine
almandine
amandine
blondine
brigandine
celandine
dine
farandine
greater celandine
Hildebrandine
hirundine
nandine
nundine
Oriental almandine
osmundine
piperidine
secundine
transandine
Udine
undine

Synonyms and antonyms of lesser celandine in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «lesser celandine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LESSER CELANDINE

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Translator English - Chinese

较小的白屈菜
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

celidonia menor
570 millions of speakers

English

lesser celandine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कम सैलंडन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بقلة الخطاطيف أقل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

менее чистотела
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

menor celidônia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কম সিলেবাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ficaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Celandine yang lebih rendah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Scharbockskraut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

少ないクサノオウ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

작은 애기똥풀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kurang celandine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cây hoàng liên ít
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறைந்த செலன்லைன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमी पिवळ्य फुलांचे एक झाड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Daha az celandine
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minore celidonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Lesser glistnika
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

менш чистотілу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mai mică rostopasca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μικρότερο celandine
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mindere speenkruid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svalört
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mindre celandine
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LESSER CELANDINE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LESSER CELANDINE»

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A Year across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering ...
Lesser. Celandine. Flowering. The month of April brings the extensive flowering of this inva— sive non—native plant in alluvial floodplains and suburban lawns. Indeed, just before trees leaf out, lesser celandine seems to be ev— erywhere, ...
Bryan MacKay, 2013
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Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History
Lesser Celandine Ranunculusficaria buttercup family (ranunculaceae) lesser celandine is one of a confusing trio of plants found in the northeast that bear the common name “celandine.” (see the chapter on celandines to learn about the others ...
Carol Gracie, 2012
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Invasive Plants: A Guide to Identification, Impacts, and ...
Terrestrial. Plants—Herbaceous. Plants—. Rosette. or. Basal. Leaves. Only. Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna NAME AND FAMILY Lesser celandine, fig buttercup, pilewort (Ficaria oe'rna Huds., formerly Ranuncuius ficaria L.); buttercup family ...
Sylvan Ramsey Kaufman, Wallace Kaufman, 2013
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Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe
Distribution: Lesser Celandine often covers the ground over large areas in damp deciduous woodland, especially in alluvial forests. Other: Lesser Celandine is a member of the Buttercup family and contains the same toxic substances. Typical  ...
Michael Eppinger, 2006
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Discovery - A Popular Journal of Knowledge, New Series, Vol. ...
Problems raised by new work on the lesser celandine will bring the fact even nearer home, for the celandine is the commonest of spring flowers — and nearly everyone from childhood has known its glossy heart-shaped leaves and brilliant  ...
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Herbal Simples Approved For Modern Uses of Cure
The Pilewort, or lesser Celandine, bespangles all our banks with its brilliant, glossy, golden stars, coming into blossom on or about March 7th, St. Perpetua's day. They are a timely tocsin for five o'clock tea, because punctually at that hour they ...
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Advanced Treatise on Herbology
Now, we will study the Lesser Celandine, as it is called, though it has neither relationship nor any similarity to the Great Celandine, except in the color of its flowers. It must be classed with the cancer remedies, for the good reason that it curea ...
Edward E. Shook, 1998
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Biology: Teacher Resource Pack
Large groups of plants often have very similar leaves [ 1 ]. b Many possible answers: lesser celandine has eight petals, primrose has five; lesser celandine has pointed petals, primrose has rounded petals: centre of flower is more exposed in ...
M. B. V. Roberts, Neil Ingram, 2002
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Cinquefoil
If Mr. Joscelyn Brooks had not used the word 'stars' in his description of the celandine, I should have accepted it as referring to the Greater Celandine, because I have always understood that it was a permanent habit of the Lesser Celandine to ...
C. F. Leyel, 2007
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FAMILY HERBAL Comprising a Description and The Medical Virtues
The greater and the Lesser Celandine are two different plants. They agree in nothing, except they have yellow flowers. The Great Celandine is much like the Poppy ; and the Lesser Celandine resembles the Crow-foot. Their virtues also differ.
Matthew Robinson, 1863

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LESSER CELANDINE»

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Trinidad Express Newspapers: Features | Trini runners excel in …
Also present are Bluebell and the yellow bloom of the Lesser Celandine. Volunteers spare no encouragement and soon Paul and John were at ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
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Buttercup family is large one
The lesser celandine, with shining yellow flowers that open when the sun shines, is often the first wild-flower to brighten hedge-bottoms and ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
3
The dawn chorus reaches its peak with the final summer arrivals
Craster Heughs were dominated by English bluebells and lesser celandine. Old railway lines such as those at Ponteland and Darras Hall can ... «Northumberland Gazette, Jun 15»
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Some birds not so swift putting in an appearance
... coltsfoot was prolific in Hulne Park, a dandelion was flowering at Yearle and both lesser celandine and germander speedwell were at Ingram ... «Northumberland Gazette, Jun 15»
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Meet the plant hunter obsessed with double-flowering blooms
A lesser celandine plant (ANDREW FOX). In fact, double flowers, which are naturally occurring plant mutations, have been around for centuries. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
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Focus on: Staunton Quarry nature reserve
Prominent plant species are cow parsley, ivy, lesser celandine, bramble, common nettle and sweet violet. Staunton Quarry is the most diverse ... «Nottingham Post, May 15»
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Friends lead bluebell walk at Middleton
By the streams and within the wetter areas patches of bog-stitchwort, wild garlic, lesser celandine and opposite leaved golden-saxifrage. «Ilkley Gazette, May 15»
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Manzer: Fig buttercups are another beautiful but invasive plant
I never mentioned fig buttercup, also known as the lesser celandine or pilewort. It is a low growing perennial that makes its growth in the late ... «The Daily Advance, May 15»
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State Conservation Department Announces Blacklist For Some …
... berry vines, which have been choking trees along the Sawmill Parkway, and the lesser celandine which has been visibly running rampant. «CBS Local, Apr 15»
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PHOTOS: The history of Towneley Hall's grounds
The lesser celandine is really a buttercup but I did not realise it was not related to the greater celandine. The “lesser” is one of the first flowers to ... «Pendle Today, Apr 15»

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