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What (who) is Cinquefoil - definition

GENUS OF PLANTS

Cinquefoil; Cinqfoil; Cinqfoils; Cinquefoils; Five-fingers; Quinquefoil; Tormentil; Potentilla verna; Potentilla deorum

cinquefoil

['s??kf??l]

¦ noun

1. a herbaceous plant of the rose family, with compound leaves of five leaflets and five-petalled yellow flowers. [Genus Potentilla.]

2. Art an ornamental design of five lobes arranged in a circle.

Origin

ME: from L. quinquefolium, from quinque 'five' + folium 'leaf'.

Cinquefoil

·noun An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, ·etc.

II. Cinquefoil ·noun The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla;

- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

Potentilla reptans

SPECIES OF PLANT

Creeping Tormentil; European cinquefoil; European Cinquefoil; Creeping Cinquefoil; Creeping cinquefoil; Creeping tormentil

Potentilla reptans, known as the creeping cinquefoil, European cinquefoil or creeping tormentil, is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla_reptans

Wikipedia

Potentilla

Potentilla is a genus containing over 300 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.

Potentillas may also be called cinquefoils in English, but they have also been called five fingers and silverweeds. Some species are called tormentils, though this is often used specifically for common tormentil (P. erecta). Others are referred to as barren strawberries, which may also refer to P. sterilis in particular, or to the closely related Waldsteinia fragarioides. Several other cinquefoils formerly included here are now separated in distinct genera - notably the popular garden shrub P. fruticosa, now Dasiphora fruticosa.

Potentillas are generally found throughout the northern continents of the world (holarctic), though some occur in montane biomes of the New Guinea Highlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla

Examples of use of Cinquefoil

1. The creeping cinquefoil rescue effort is one of many campaigns undertaken as part of the River Guardians project, in which 15 Upper Galilee schools are partners.

2. Facing extinction During the course of their environmental studies, they realized that a plant in the area called creeping cinquefoil has become increasingly rare in recent years.

3. Recently, after a year of efforts to return the rare plant to nature, the students and their parents celebrated their retoring of the creeping cinquefoil to the nearby Pa‘ar cave.

4. By Eli Ashkenazi When students at the Psagot School on Kibbutz Yiron realized that a plant known as the creeping cinquefoil (hamshan zohel in Hebrew) was on the brink of disappearing from their area around their Upper Galilee homes, they mobilized to rescue it.