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five-finger

American

[fahyv-fing-ger] / ˈfaɪvˌfɪŋ gər /

noun

any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
Virginia creeper.

five-finger British

noun

any of various plants having five-petalled flowers or five lobed leaves, such as cinquefoil and Virginia creeper

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Etymology

Origin of five-finger

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fīffingre

Example Sentences

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Veteran linebacker Jon Bostic said if he’s not in cleats, he’s in Crocs, and offensive lineman Wes Schweitzer, a rock climber, likes five-finger toe shoes.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

Puro also shows her invention in her long titles: “How to Arrest Time by Crushing Rust to Powder”; “elegy with five-finger discount on smallpox blanket.”

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2018

What was "Ulysses" but Joyce working five-finger changes on the novel after a century of Dickens stories?

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2018

Cage spoke of five-finger exercises, and we heard his Suite for Toy Piano.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2015

He may have an intuition of this, for he says quietly, "Now play me a scale and a five-finger exercise."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various

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