crowfoot

Noun

Meaning

The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.

A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.

A caltrop.

A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

buttercup kingcup goldcup ranunculus butter-flower butterflower ridge slinger chicken dike ruck bird hollow lucy trench
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Antonyms

headland smoothness

Hypernyms

herb herbaceous plant

Hyponyms

creeping buttercup meadow buttercup Ranunculus acris mountain lily creeping crowfoot Mount Cook lily

Phrases with the word

water crowfoot tuberous crowfoot crowfoot wrench european crowfoot glacier crowfoot tall crowfoot

Examples

Chief Ouray Crowfoot of the Siksika Nation called the grant program “one step of many necessary steps” toward equitable access to appropriate health care services for his people. Source: Internet

This structure was not immediately published due to the restrictions of wartime secrecy, and was initially strongly disputed, by Sir Robert Robinson among others, but it was finally confirmed in 1945 by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin using X-ray analysis." Source: Internet

In return for his assent, Crowfoot was famously rewarded with a lifetime pass to ride the CPR. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Crowell crower crowflower crowfoot cell crowfoot family crowfoot grass