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What (who) is quinquefoil - definition

GENUS OF PLANTS
Cinquefoil; Cinqfoil; Cinqfoils; Cinquefoils; Five-fingers; Quinquefoil; Tormentil; Potentilla verna; Potentilla deorum
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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.
Tormentil         
·noun A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.

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.