英语词汇buttercup的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

buttercup. Centuries ago English dairy farmers believed that if their cows ate the little yellow flowers that commonly grew in the meadows, the butter they yielded would be colored the same rich yellow. Experience seemed to prove that this was true and so the flowers were named buttercups. Actually, the field buttercup (Ranunculus acris) did improve the quality of Bossy’s output, because the flower grows only on good pasture and thus provides good feed. The flower’s scientific genus name, Ranunculus, is Latin for “a little frog,” in allusion to the meadow habitat of the wildflower.

词汇	buttercup
词源	buttercup. Centuries ago English dairy farmers believed that if their cows ate the little yellow flowers that commonly grew in the meadows, the butter they yielded would be colored the same rich yellow. Experience seemed to prove that this was true and so the flowers were named buttercups. Actually, the field buttercup (Ranunculus acris) did improve the quality of Bossy’s output, because the flower grows only on good pasture and thus provides good feed. The flower’s scientific genus name, Ranunculus, is Latin for “a little frog,” in allusion to the meadow habitat of the wildflower.
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