water crowfoot

2 definitions found

water crowfoot - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Water crowfoot \Wa"ter crow"foot`\ (Bot.)
     An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used
     as food for cattle in parts of England.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus  multifidus
        ), having deep yellow flowers.
        [1913 Webster]

water crowfoot - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  water crowfoot
      n 1: plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and
           floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America
           [syn: water crowfoot, water buttercup, Ranunculus aquatilis
           ]