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Crowfoot

noun
1.
Any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus.  Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup.



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"Crowfoot" Quotes from Famous Books



... gray moorland. High up among the alpine heights his gentian spreads its lakes of blue; amid the snows of the Himalayas his rhododendrons gleam with crimson light. Even the wayside pond yields him the white crowfoot and the arrowhead, while the broad expanses of Brazilian streams are beautified by his gorgeous water-lilies. The insect has thus turned the whole surface of the earth into a boundless flower-garden, which supplies him from year to year with pollen or honey, and ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... them, that not only Mrs. Pennel's best India china vases on the keeping-room mantel were filled, but here stood a tumbler of scarlet rock columbine, and there a bowl of blue and white violets, and in another place a saucer of shell-tinted crowfoot, blue liverwort, and white anemone, so that Zephaniah Pennel was wont to say there wasn't a drink of water to be got, for Mara's flowers; but he always said it with a smile that made his weather-beaten, hard features look like a rock lit up by a sunbeam. Little ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... couldn't let that complaint go by unchallenged. I told him of our range-lilies and foxglove and buffalo-beans and yellow crowfoot and wild sunflowers and prairie-roses and crocuses and even violets in some sections. "And the prairie-grasses, Peter—don't forget the prairie-grasses," I concluded, perplexed for a moment by the rather grim smile that crept up into his rather solemn ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer



Words linked to "Crowfoot" :   genus Ranunculus, celery-leaved buttercup, tall field buttercup, tall buttercup, Ranunculus, creeping buttercup, Ranunculus lyalii, Mount Cook lily, Ranunculus bulbosus, Ranunculus occidentalis, herbaceous plant, Ranunculus acris, mountain lily, Ranunculus repens, meadow buttercup, Ranunculus sceleratus, tall crowfoot, herb, common buttercup, western buttercup



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