Bob, the Greek lexicon I'm using (Liddell & Scott; funny, I found photos of scantily dressed little girls in my autographed copy - just kidding) lists two similar words, baccaris and baccharis. The former (with kappa kappa) is an unguent made from, guess what - baccharis (spelled kappa chi). The identity of the plant from which the unguent was made is given as asaron.
So both Bacchus and baccharis are spelled in Greek with the kappa-chi combination. Ranunculus is sometimes construed as tadpole, although I suppose that like homunculus it could mean little frog. Jim McKenney
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