cinquefoil 的定义
- any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans, of the Old World, or P. argentea, of North America.
- Also called quinquefoil, quintefoil. Architecture. a panellike ornament consisting of five lobes, divided by cusps, radiating from a common center.
- Heraldry. a charge in the form of a five-leaved clover.
cinquefoil 近义词
等同于 five
cinquefoil 的近义词 16 个
- cinque
- limerick
- lustrum
- pentacle
- pentad
- pentagon
- pentagram
- pentangle
- quinquennium
- quintette
- quintuple
- quintuplet
- quincunx
- quinquennial
- quintuplets. associatedwords: quinary
- quintuplicate
更多cinquefoil例句
- In June, he writes, "The wind dies, bees hover outside the open tower windows, the cinquefoil blooms butter yellow in the meadow."
- On the south side the westernmost Perpendicular bay, up to the triforium, is solid and covered with cinquefoil panelling.
- The panels are pointed and divided each into two cinquefoil divisions.
- Over each seat is an ogee canopy, cinquefoil, crocketed, and surmounted by a huge finial.
- Opposite to it is an enclosed Early English window, with cinquefoil heads and shafts in the jambs.
- The Creeping Cinquefoil has a slender stem that creeps on the ground and forms new roots at the nodes.