The Collaborative International Dictionary
Water crowfoot
Water crowfoot \Wa"ter crow"foot`\ (Bot.) An aquatic kind of buttercup ( Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
Great water crowfoot, an American water plant ( Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.
WordNet
water crowfoot
n. plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America [syn: water buttercup, Ranunculus aquatilis]
Usage examples of "water crowfoot".
All the species of Ranunculus, except the Water Crowfoot, are acrid, and before the introduction of Cantharides (Spanish Fly), many, especially R.
Cadfael tucked up his habit and splashed through, shaking the little rafts of water crowfoot until the whole languid surface quivered.