Cinquefoil Definition

sĭngkfoil, săngk-
noun
Any of a genus (Potentilla) of plants of the rose family, with white, yellow, or red flowers and fruit like a dry strawberry: some species have compound leaves with five leaflets arranged like the fingers on a hand.
Webster's New World
A circular design made up of five converging arcs.
Webster's New World

Potentilla (flower)

Wiktionary

(topology) A particular knot of five crossings.

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Other Word Forms of Cinquefoil

Noun

Singular:
cinquefoil
Plural:
cinquefoils

Origin of Cinquefoil

  • Middle English cinkfoil cink five cinque foil leaf (translation of Old French quintefeuille) (from Latin quīnquefolium) (translation of Greek pentaphullon) foil2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cinquefoil Sentence Examples

  • High up in Wharfedale the scars and screes support a range of plants including the nationally scarce alpine cinquefoil and hoary whitlowgrass.

  • Plants include mosses eg Sphagnum, cotton grass, purple moor grass, cranberry, marsh cinquefoil, marsh violet and round leaved sundew.

  • The black chief, with the ermine cinquefoil, from the arms of the County Council, represents the Leicestershire coalfield.

  • Windows with two-centred arches containing three lights with cinquefoil tracery.

  • Greater freedom of moulding and the use of trefoil and cinquefoil may be, but need not be, explained in this way.

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Words Starting With

CCICIN

Words Ending With

LILOIL

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With C and Ending With L

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Word Length

10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With C10 Letter Words Ending With L