Valley bottoms with stable, well-drained soils support deciduous shrubs, such as cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), the legume (Caragana jubata), and willows (Salix spp). From Wordnik.com. [Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows] Reference
The panels are pointed and divided each into two cinquefoil divisions. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Over each seat is an ogee canopy, cinquefoil, crocketed, and surmounted by. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Not trefoil, not cinquefoil, but quatrefoil, the architectural equivalent of a four-leaf clover. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Along the exposed front of the ceiling are four double cinquefoil arches, between which were three busts. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
It was right next to a cinquefoil window, giving him a view over the rooftops towards the centre of the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Things more common in the prairies, like prairie pink, cinquefoil, and pussytoes (also known as everlasting). From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
On the south side the westernmost Perpendicular bay, up to the triforium, is solid and covered with cinquefoil panelling. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
She came to hate the bitter yarrow tea they made her drink, and the smell of the poultice made of tall cinquefoil and yarrow. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
Lamb's-quarters and cinquefoil were already blooming, and I could see the buds of sweet broom swelling; another week and they'd be in flower. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Here the round arch, which is again flanked by two panels, comprises three cinquefoil lights, and the mullions are carried up through the head. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
I made immortal seven different varieties of cinquefoil, root, leaf, and blossom, for the benefit of the unborn generations who would thank me someday. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
The only trace of them now to be seen is in the spandrels of a small cinquefoil-headed opening on the projecting gabled wing to the south of the central door. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Potentilla tridentata (mountain cinquefoil), Kineo. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
The cinquefoil is usually later than the trefoil arch. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Potentilla Norvegica (cinquefoil), Heron Lake shore and Smith's. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
They are closely allied to cinquefoil, and all belong to the rose family. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
Sir James Astley hung his shield of cinquefoil ermine over the quarter of the Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
Labrador tea, alpine bearberry, dwarf cinquefoil and dwarf birch, willow and balsam fir. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The central doorway is divided by a clustered shaft, where from spring two cinquefoil arches. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
In each of the last two bays of the presbytery the triforium has five small cinquefoil arches. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
Opposite to it is an enclosed Early English window, with cinquefoil heads and shafts in the jambs. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage Round England] Reference
In the head of the largest arch is a cinquefoil opening ornamented with cusps and dog-tooth moulding. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
Besides the trefoiled, there is the cinquefoil arch, with five lobes or foils, and the multifoile arch with several. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Above the two arches is an acutely-pointed gable, within which, supported by the arches, is a circle with cinquefoil tracery. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
They are placed under a comprising pointed arch, just beneath the point of which, and over the central lancet, is a cinquefoil opening. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda] Reference
A cinquefoil, said to have been borne by him on a red Shield, was the device of ROBERT FITZ-PERNEL, Earl of LEICESTER, who died in 1204. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference
Under the windows runs an arcade of blind tracery, two lights to each division, with a cinquefoil ornamented with a sculptured boss above. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
Other plants with runners much like the strawberry are: several kinds of crowfoot, barren strawberry, cinquefoil, strawberry geranium, and orange hawkweed. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
G. a cinquefoil pierced betw. 8 crosse crosselets Umframyille d’or. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
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