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po·ten·til·la  (ptn-tl)

n.

Any of numerous herbs or shrubs of the genus Potentilla, of the North Temperate Zone, having pinnately or palmately compound leaves and yellow, white, or red flowers with many pistils.

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[Medieval Latin, garden valerian, from Latin potns, potent-, present participle of posse, to be able; see potent.]

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Potentilla - chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil genus Potentilla rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants family Rosaceae, Rosaceae, rose family - a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens cinquefoil, five-finger - any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties