five-finger

[ fahyv-fing-ger ]

/ ˈfaɪvˌfɪŋ gər /

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noun

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

Virginia creeper.

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Origin of five-finger

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fīffingre

Words nearby five-finger

five-by-five, Five Civilized Nations, five-eighth, Five-Elements School, five-faced bishop, five-finger, fivefold, five-gaited, five hole, five hundred, five hundred rummy

How to use five-finger in a sentence

“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
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The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
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The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
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Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
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Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
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These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
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At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
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British Dictionary definitions for five-finger

five-finger

noun

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

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