crowfoot
- noun
- /ˈkroʊˌfʊt/
- The garden featured a variety of flowers, including crowfoot, which have unique leaves shaped like birds' feet.
Examples
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=I'm Sally crowfoot.
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Lake aquatic plants include the common bladderwort and white water crowfoot (a type of buttercup), both of which grow entirely underwater except for their blooms.
Academic text (1998) -
Dr. Marie Curie and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin on (a) the role of women in science, (b) whether Nobel recognition makes it easier or harder to continue research in a male-dominated profession, and (c) how best to restructure the current system to encourage and support a greater influx of women into the upper levels of science.
Blog text (33) -
Common plants like crowfoot can often be found blooming along riverbanks in spring.
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In wetlands, crowfoot thrives, offering vibrant blooms during the warmer months.
Synonyms
A wild plant with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers
A small plant with bright yellow or white flowers like a buttercup
A small plant with bright yellow flowers that look like cups
A small wild plant with bright yellow flowers
Compounds
A creeping grass with spiky heads like a bird's foot that often grows as a weed
- Specialized
A group of plants with flowers that includes buttercups and anemones
A plant that lives for many years with long creeping stems and small yellow flowers
A European wild flower that comes back every year with bright yellow spring flowers
- Specialized
A water plant with floating leaves and small white flowers that grows in ponds and slow streams
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crowfoot comes from the common words crow and foot because the plant's deeply divided leaves spread out like a bird's foot. So a crowfoot is a plant named for its foot-like leaves, and some kinds are also called buttercup for their bright yellow flowers.