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Crowfoot   Listen
noun
Crowfoot  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
2.
(Naut.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.
3.
(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crow's-foot)
4.
(Well Boring) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.





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"Crowfoot" Quotes from Famous Books



... WATER CROWFOOT (Ranunculus aquatilis).—The white flowers, with yellow eyes, make quite a sheet over the ponds of Cranbury Common, etc. Ivy-leaved (R. hederaceus).—Not so frequent. The ivy-shaped leaves float above, the long fibrous ones go below. When there is lack ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... or northward, his eye ranged over the lovely undulating Sussex Weald, with its park-like, well-wooded hills and valleys, now in the first blush of their summer beauty, the leafage all tender green, and the soft meadowlike pastures gilded with the dazzling yellow of the over-abundant crowfoot. ...
— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn
... importance. The Blackfeet, the most formidable body of natives in the Territories, never broke the peace, although they were more than once very restless. Their good behaviour was chiefly owing to the influence of Chief Crowfoot, always a ...
— Canada • J. G. Bourinot


Words linked to "Crowfoot" :   butterflower, crowfoot grass, herb, Ranunculus lyalii, Ranunculus, mountain lily, Ranunculus acris, buttercup, genus Ranunculus, goldcup, Ranunculus occidentalis, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, western buttercup, cursed crowfoot, common buttercup, Mount Cook lily, Ranunculus sceleratus, Ranunculus repens, herbaceous plant, Ranunculus bulbosus, tall crowfoot, creeping crowfoot, celery-leaved buttercup


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