five-finger

five-fin·ger (fvfnggr)

n.

Any of several plants having palmately compound leaves with five leaflets, such as the cinquefoil.

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five-finger

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various plants having five-petalled flowers or five lobed leaves, such as cinquefoil and Virginia creeper

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five-finger - any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties cinquefoil genus Potentilla, Potentilla - chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil goose-tansy, Potentilla anserina, silverweed, goose grass - low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems