bird's-foot
Britishnoun
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a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus , with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
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any of various other plants whose flowers, leaves, or pods resemble a bird's foot or claw
Example Sentences
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Heading back toward Broadway, we came upon a giant mural on the side of an apartment building featuring male and female hooded warblers perched on a bird’s-foot violet plant.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
By varying the steepness of the table, they created miniature mountain streams disgorging into fan-shaped flood plains and bird's-foot deltas.
From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021
The common mallow, whose flower is usually a light mauve, has here a deep, almost purple bloom; the bird's-foot lotus is a deep orange.
From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies
On a dry, gravelly, half-wooded hill-slope the bird's-foot violet grows in great abundance, and is sparse in neighboring districts.
From Wake-Robin by John Burroughs
They lay down in the dry grass, upon the gold bits of bird's-foot trefoil of the cliff's edge, and looked out to sea.
From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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