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Definition of Tall crowfoot
1. Noun. Perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Butter-flower, Buttercup, Butterflower, Crowfoot, Goldcup, Kingcup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tall Crowfoot
Literary usage of Tall crowfoot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"... the magnificent wild flowers of foreign lands to our area of Nature's garden.
CROWFOOT FAMILY (Ranunculaceae) Common Meadow Buttercup; tall crowfoot; ..."
2. Report (1913)
"Ranunculus acris L. tall crowfoot. A weed about the village, and growing in open
woods like a native plant. Hepatica triloba Chaix. ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"with a solid fleshy root, acrimonious and almost caustic ; the tall crowfoot (R.
aeris, Linn.), with a fleshy, fibrous root; and the creeping crowfoot (JR. ..."
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