NOUN
- any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties
- an ornamental carving consisting of five arcs arranged in a circle
How To Use cinquefoil In A Sentence
- Rare cinquefoil bloom just inches from the path and marsh grasses waft in the breeze.
- Among the common wildflowers are one-flowered cinquefoil, woolly lousewort, alpine willowherb, three saxifrages, and an Indian paintbrush.
- Another saddle had Sir Gavlok Whitfell's pierced cinquefoil insignia. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- If you have a toothache or mouth sore, you might try cinquefoil, a native plant.
- A fayre quilte of crymson sattin, vj breadths, iij yardes 3 quarters naile deepe, all lozenged over with silver twiste, in the midst a cinquefoile within a garland of ragged staves, fringed rounde aboute with Kenilworth
- Perpendicular window, the heads of the lights below the transom being cinquefoiled, while above each window is a cornice supported by small arches resting on corbels; over all is a pierced battlement, which is also crenelated at the actual east end. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
- One of these plants, Robbins' cinquefoil or dwarf cinquefoil, has been proposed for removal from the federal endangered species list.
- Deciduous cinquefoil has long been used for borders and ground covers in cold-climate gardens.
- Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows.
- Yellow celandine, tormentil, and cinquefoil gleam as the sun rests on them. Country diary: Millyford Bridge, New Forest
