Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant, the Lotus corniculatus, so called from its claw-shaped spreading pods: commonly as a plural, crow-toes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The
Lotus corniculatus . - noun An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A plant, Lotus corniculatus.
- noun obsolete An unidentified plant, probably the
crowfoot .
Etymologies
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crow + toe
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Examples
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Above its gravel beach rises a slope of coarse short grass, woven through with wild thyme and yellow crowtoe.
Priscilla's Spies George A. Birmingham 1907
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