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
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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.
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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.
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Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch.
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We saw a lot of wild garlic, scabia, buddleia, bird's-foot trefoil and greater knapweed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Add bird's-foot clover and hop clover to the flora, plus the milkweed has started to bloom.
Apropos of Bullwinkle jhetley 2007
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Wood anemones, lady's smock, bird's-foot trefoil and other frail flowers will permeate a room with their fresh breath.
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