## Etymology
A compound of butter + cup, named for the flower's buttery-yellow, cup-shaped blossoms. Butter is from Old English butere, from Latin butyrum; cup from Old English cuppe.

## AI Etymology
Buttercup is a compound of butter + cup, named for the flower's buttery-yellow, cup-shaped blossoms. Butter is from Old English butere, from Latin butyrum; cup from Old English cuppe. Important recorded forms include butere (Old English) and cuppe (Old English). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers a yellow-flowered wild plant of the genus Ranunculus. The wider family includes related words such as butter and cup.

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- Plants & Agriculture

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