crowfoot : Idioms & Phrases

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Ceeping crowfoot

  • (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens. -
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creeping crowfoot

  • noun perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
    creeping buttercup; Ranunculus repens.
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crowfoot family

  • noun a family of Ranunculaceae
    family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae; buttercup family.
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crowfoot grass

  • noun a creeping grass with spikes like fingers
    Dactyloctenium aegypticum; Egyptian grass.
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cursed crowfoot

  • noun annual herb growing in marshy places
    celery-leaved buttercup; Ranunculus sceleratus.
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dorothy mary crowfoot hodgkin

  • noun English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
    Hodgkin; Dorothy Hodgkin.
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Great water crowfoot

  • an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.
Webster 1913

tall crowfoot

  • noun perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
    meadow buttercup; tall field buttercup; tall buttercup; Ranunculus acris.
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water crowfoot

  • noun plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America
    Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup.
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Wa"ter crow"foot`
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
Webster 1913