Crossword-Solution: CINQUEFOIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cinquefoil | n. | The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand. |
| Cinquefoil | n. | An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. |
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| FIVE-cusped ornament | 1 answer |
| ARCHITECTURAL decoration | 29 answers |
| Flower. | 57 answers |
| Herald | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CINQUEFOIL (5)
But—would your worship believe it?—my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf’s bane.” “Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe,” said the shape of old Goodman Brown.
Lying beside a bank of silvery cinquefoil against a clear evening sky, where the planet Venus is a point of new and warmer light, one has the vision of her.
Cinquefoil, too, the shrubby variety, I saw in great numbers--another one of our native dwarf shrubs which, though decried as a weed, should figure as a border plant in my millionaire’s park.
Cinquefoil remains green though faded, and wild parsley the freshest looking of all; plantain leaves are found under shelter of brambles, and the dumb nettles, though the old stalks are dead, have living leaves at the ground.
BARREN STRAWBERRY (_Potentilla Fragariastrum_).—How often has “mustn’t pick the strawberry blossom” been quoted to this delusive little white cinquefoil in early spring, when it peeps out among leaves very like strawberry-leaves in the hedge.
Quotes with CINQUEFOIL (1)
On the floor beside the spare pillow that had tumbled from the bed in her sleep was a single yellow flower. Five heart-shaped petals. As fresh and as pure as if it were in full bloom in a summer meadow. Drowsy and mind-fogged, she crept downstairs to look for a book on Irish wildflowers. It took her a while to find anything that resembled the yellow flower, but eventually she found an image and description that matched: "Cinquefoil, a flower renowned for its healing propertie…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1967).