crowtoe
English
Etymology
Noun
crowtoe (plural crowtoes)
- A perennial herbaceous plant, Lotus corniculatus, of temperate Eurasia and northern Africa.
- 1812, Samuel Egerton Brydges, Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, The British Bibliographer Volume 2
- With yelowish marygold , she the tender Crowtoe bedecketh
- 1812, Samuel Egerton Brydges, Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, The British Bibliographer Volume 2
- (obsolete) An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
- 1637, John Milton, Lycidas
- The tufted Crow-toe.
- 1637, John Milton, Lycidas
Synonyms
- (Lotus corniculatus): bird's-foot trefoil, birdfoot deervetch
References
- Lotus corniculatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lotus corniculatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Lotus corniculatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crowtoe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)