crowfoot

Plural: crowfeet, crowfoots

Noun

• A flowering plant, typically with leaves resembling a crow's foot.
• any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus
• Any of many plants, mostly of subgenus Ranunculus subg. Batrachium, that have a leaf shaped somewhat like a bird's foot; especially the buttercups

Examples

• She hoped to play a botanical word like CROWFOOT for double points, but the letters eluded her.

Synonyms

butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup