coltsfoot

American  

[kohlts-foot] / ˈkoʊltsˌfʊt /

noun

• coltsfoots
  plural

1. a composite plant, Tussilago farfara, having yellow, daisylike flowers, native to the Old World but widespread as a weed, formerly used as a cough remedy.

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coltsfoot British  

/ ˈkəʊltsˌfʊt /

noun

1. a European plant, Tussilago farfara, with yellow daisy-like flowers and heart-shaped leaves: a common weed: family Asteraceae (composites)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• coltsfoots
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of coltsfoot

1545–55; colt + ’s ¹ + foot, so called from the shape of the leaves

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Example Sentences

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April to early May is the earliest you might expect to see skunk cabbage, coltsfoot and trillium blooming around Longmire, in the Mount Rainier National Park’s southwest corner.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Perry writes of blue lias and saltings; gorse thickets and bladderwrack; coltsfoot and cowslips.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2017

Puzic bought toothpaste, soap and a bundle of broad coltsfoot leaves.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion—and the wall being built around Asgard was a glorious, imposing thing.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

One ounce of each of the following, slippery elm bark, crushed thyme, coltsfoot flowers, hyssop or marshmallow.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

The church bells were ringing boisterously, with the careless boisterousness of the brooks and the birds and the rollicking coltsfoots and celandines.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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