The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starfish \Star"fish`\ (-f[i^]sh`), n.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
Note: The ophiuroids are also sometimes called starfishes. See Brittle star, and Ophiuroidea.
(Zo["o]l.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.
Cinquefoil \Cinque"foil`\, n. [Cinque five + foil, F. feuille leaf. See Foil.]
(Bot.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.
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(Arch.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.
--Gwilt.Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.
WordNet
n. any of a numerous plants grown for their 5-petal flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties [syn: cinquefoil]
Usage examples of "five-finger".
In the shelter of the fern patch, she picked apart fronds with her agile, five-fingered hands, and she nibbled on brown spores.
What do you think of the value of the fleabane, and the daisies, and the yellow five-finger in that field?
The five-fingered hands ended in lethal, steellike talons also designed for ripping and tearing flesh, and the thick legs ended in reptillian feet that could grasp, claw, propel that heavy body over almost any obstacle.
Any man who lived by himself and didn't take advantage of the five-finger discount was a damn fool, as far as he was concerned.
Lola had picked it up last year from an acquaintance who fenced for a haute couture shoplifting ring, and considered it worth every penny it had cost-a serious outlay of money even after the five-finger discount.
We did not pay for food or lodgings, but aside from that and a few five-finger discounts on souvenirs, we suspended our illegal activities.
One huge hand spread across the cracked linoleum as though performing a five-finger exercise.
It cut through the broken front of the house, lifting a card on the card-table and riffling the pages of five-finger exercises on the piano.