Sentence examples for crowfoot from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of many plants, mostly of the genus Ranunculus, that have a leaf shaped somewhat like a bird's foot; especially the buttercups
2. Water crowfoot A member of the buttercup family, water crowfoot is particularly associated with chalk streams, those limpidly clear small rivers whose waters are purified by being filtered by the underlying chalk.
Bunches of leathery, green-stemmed water crowfoot rooted in the shallow, gravel ripples, floating their gorgeous, white-as- snow flowers on the water's surface to decorate our idyllic route.
The crowfoot flowers dot the surface of the stream in a carpet of white buttons.
The underwater water crowfoot grows so fast that the waterkeeper mows it like the grass.
The air is full of damselflies, midges, mayflies, swifts, and swallows, the sandy chalky bottom thick with cress and water crowfoot.
Water crowfoot blossomed above the surface, its roots trailing.
It's the day for cutting river water crowfoot upstream - a controversial practice by fishery managers that creates better conditions for large numbers of fish but reduces the natural braking effect that this plant has on slow rivers.
The river is funnelled into the pool where clumps of crowfoot have a barn dance: joining hands to gallop down the centre line, then splitting left and right, and returning to the start.
Both men and women are admitted into the order; Florence Nightingale was the first woman awarded the honour (1907), and not another woman received the order until the induction of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1965.
For example, British crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and American geneticist Barbara McClintock made important discoveries that were duly recognized by the Nobel committees.
"Industry efforts to make charging networks open to all drivers are a big step forward," Wade Crowfoot, deputy director of the governor's office of planning and research, said in an interview.
