crow's-foot

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Annabeth ran her hand along some marks on the ground - a jagged crow’s-foot shape as long as a human body.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

There are, likewise, a species of sow-thistle, goose-grass, some crow's-foot, which has a very fine crimson flower, and two sorts of anthericum, one with a large orange flower, and the other with a blue one.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

She thrust her face close to the glass to see whether some long-remembered wrinkle or crow's-foot had indeed vanished.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

The cactus and Spanish dagger, and the ever-present sage bush of the lower levels, had disappeared, crow's-foot and blue-joint grasses swung in the wind.

From The Spirit of Sweetwater by Garland, Hamlin

Meanwhile, they who act with too jealous respect for their morrow of civilized comfort, reap only indigestion, and crow's-foot traceries for their deluded eye-corners.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan