cinquefoil

Example Sentences

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For Potentilla, or cinquefoil, it’s a more industrial approach.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Vollmer’s research on the dwarf mountain cinquefoil seeks to provide evidence of the plant cloning itself by producing seeds without fertilization, or of genetic diversity and its evolution.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2020

The grass was knee-high and thick with cornflowers, gentians, cinquefoil.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

And when I explained that she had found it while digging for cinquefoil root—which we used on open sores—he seemed quite interested.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

Here, however, these are Gothic, with trefoil cusped arches, developing in the topmost to cinquefoil, and giving an air of elegance to the whole that is lacking in the Cathedral.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe