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
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
The grass was knee-high and thick with cornflowers, gentians, cinquefoil.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
The windows in the gable consist of two lesser windows, two-light, with quatrefoil heads, beneath a large octofoil, the whole grouped with blank panels at the side, beneath a cinquefoil moulding.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by White, Gleeson
