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Coltsfoot

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot. countable, uncountable

    "The russet cliffs are wetted by a beck, and where the water runs, yellow coltsfoot grows."

  2. 2
    perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly wordnet
  3. 3
    Various flowering plants in the genus Petasites native to Europe or Asia. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall wordnet
  5. 5
    Homogyne alpina (alpine coltsfoot or purple colt's-foot). countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English coltisfote, coltys fot, equivalent to colt + -s- + foot.

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