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Definition of Foalfoot
1. n. See Coltsfoot.
Definition of Foalfoot
1. Noun. (botany) coltsfoot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foalfoot
1. a plant with large soft leaves [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foalfoot
Literary usage of Foalfoot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Prior, p. 82. (4) Nepeta Glechoma, Benth.—Wr. foalfoot ... The leaves are shaped
like those of Asarum and other plants called foalfoot. Fog. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"The leaves are shaped like those of Asarum and other plants called ^foalfoot.
Fog. A term given in Halliwell for 'Moss (North);' also in ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... more to be admired, that such and such plants should have a peculiar virtue
to such particular parts, * as to the head, anise-seeds, foalfoot, betony, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... more to be admired, that such and such plants should have a peculiar virtue
to such particular parts, 7 as to the head, anise-seeds, foalfoot, betony, ..."
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