crowtoe

English

Lotus corniculatus

Etymology

From crow +‎ toe.

Noun

crowtoe (plural crowtoes)

1. 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

2. (obsolete) An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
   • 1637, John Milton, Lycidas:

     The tufted Crow-toe.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• co-wrote, cowrote