shrubby cinquefoil

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noun

a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.

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Also called hardhack.

Words nearby shrubby cinquefoil

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How to use shrubby cinquefoil in a sentence

In June, he writes, "The wind dies, bees hover outside the open tower windows, the cinquefoil blooms butter yellow in the meadow."
Great Weekend Reads|The Daily Beast|April 23, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It bears a truly desolate appearance, being nothing but ridges of bare white sand, scantily crowned with a few shrubby bushes.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
The town stands upon an elevated prairie, upon which may be found a few groves of shrubby timber.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXX|Joel Palmer
I measured some near the Highland Light in Truro, which had been taken from the shrubby woods thereabouts when young, and grafted.
Cape Cod|Henry D. Thoreau

These lanes were very dusty at the time, and were hemmed in with an uninteresting shrubby growth on each side.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines|H. Wilfrid Walker
Araliace, which is nearly related to the Umbellifer, but the species are of a more shrubby habit.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2|Various