potentilla

See also: Potentilla

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

potentilla (plural potentillas)

1. Any of many shrubs and herbs of the genus Potentilla; the cinquefoils.
   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:

     Potentilla, for instance, used to drive out the demon of fever, was also good against witches.

Translations

any of many shrubs and herbs of the genus Potentilla

• Bulgarian: бял очеболец m (bjal očebolec)
• Catalan: potentil·la f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 委陵菜 (zh) (wěilíngcài)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hanhikki (fi)
• French: potentille (fr)
• German: Fingerkraut n
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: pimpó (hu)
• Korean: 양지꽃 (yangjikkot)
• Polish: pięciornik (pl) m
• Portuguese: potentilha f
• Russian: лапча́тка (ru) f (lapčátka)
• Serbo-Croatian: petòprsta f, petòprst (sh) m, pètolist (sh) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• potentilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• potentilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Pallottine