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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A common name for several plants, especially papilionaceous plants of the genus Ornithopus, their legumes being articulated, cylindrical, and bent in like claws.
  • noun The name of a spurge, Euphorbia Ornithopus, of the Cape of Good Hope.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
  • noun (Bot.) the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also European.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A papilionaceous plant with a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, claw-like point.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the foot of a bird

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Examples

  • Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.

    Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex 2011

  • In these Lammas days, the flowers of the sun are bird's-foot trefoil, meliots, medicks, St John's wort, yellow-wort, ragwort and hawkbits.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch.

    Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash 2011

  • We saw a lot of wild garlic, scabia, buddleia, bird's-foot trefoil and greater knapweed.

    Country diary: Longburton, Dorset 2011

  • Hemp agrimony, bird's-foot trefoil and knapweed attracted the attention of commas, common blues, red admirals and the only painted ladies we've encountered so far this year.

    Country diary: Durham coast 2010

  • Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill.

    Country diary: Shetland 2010

  • In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

  • Lots of red clover and bird's-foot clover in the fields, drifts of white daisy faces, and the sumac is almost ready to bloom.

    Sunday roadkill report jhetley 2008

  • Add bird's-foot clover and hop clover to the flora, plus the milkweed has started to bloom.

    Apropos of Bullwinkle jhetley 2007

  • Wood anemones, lady's smock, bird's-foot trefoil and other frail flowers will permeate a room with their fresh breath.

    The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

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