The word "buttercup" is correct and usable in written English.
Generally it is used as a term of endearment, like a nickname for someone you are fond of. For example, you could say: "My darling buttercup, you are the light of my life."
The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow.
But there were high points: the pintucked, pleated blouses in a bright buttercup shade were lovely, and the mini capes caused envy in the audience trying to cope with Manhattan cold yet still look stylish.
My garden meadow is gradually becoming an echo of the upland hay fields with the purple-blue of wood cranesbill, the antiseptic smell of yarrow and sneezewort and the spring yellow of buttercup.
Bearded tribesmen in huge buttercup yellow turbans mingled with men in suits and women delegates in a vast carpeted tent set up in Kabul Polytechnic.
Meadow rue (genus Thalictrum), genus of approximately 330 species of perennial herbaceous plants in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).
The order is considered to have arisen from the ancestors of the magnolia order (Magnoliales) and to be related to the ancestors of the buttercup order (Ranunculales); thus, it occupies a key position in the evolution of flowering plants.
Helleborus, of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), is composed of about 20 species of perennial herbs native to Eurasia, including black hellebore, or Christmas rose (H. niger); Lenten rose (H. orientalis); stinking hellebore, or bear's foot (H. foetidus); and green hellebore (H. viridis).
Clematis, genus of perennial, chiefly climbing shrubs of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) with about 370 species distributed over most of the world, especially in Asia and North America.
During the second world war, when fabrics were heavily rationed, Elizabeth King, a florist, walked down the aisle in a gown made from a buttercup-patterned upholstery fabric.
The walls of post offices, hotels and pubs along the route are bedecked with buttercup-hued bicycles; organisers promise that the event could end up boosting Britain's economy by at least £100m.
Its yellow, buttercup-like flowers have sepals that turn scarlet and remain after the petals fall.
