Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Divided like a bird's foot; pedate, as the leaves of the bird-foot violet, Viola pedata.

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Examples

  • Great, pale blue bird-foot violets were blooming on favoured slopes, and in protected hollows patches of eyebright made fairy forests on the moss, while under tatters of dead leaves by the brookside arbutus blushed.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • The young grass was emerald green along the country roads, the apple trees were all in sheets of bloom, hill-sides were fairly blue with bird-foot violets, and sweet spring flowers were smiling everywhere.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various

  • They are curiously formed and twisted, pedate or bird-foot shaped, the outer segments twice cut, lance-shaped, and turned inwards or over the main part of the leaf; the leaves are of a deep green colour, and of good substance; they seldom exceed four in number to each plant or tuber.

    Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

  • On a wooded hillside, where grew a profusion of trailing arbutus, pink azalea, and bird-foot violets, the rowdyish, great-crested flycatchers were screaming in the tree-tops.

    Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

  • They are divided into three main groups: the [[Ornithopods]] ( "bird-foot"), the

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • She knew the exact spot, a mile from the gray farmhouse, where, in a lovely little wood by a quiet road, a profusion of bird-foot violets and bluets made a carpet of blue loveliness each spring -- so on, through the fleet days of summer, till the last asters and goldenrod faded, the child reveled in the beauties and wonders of the world at her feet and loved every part of it, from the tiny blue speedwell in the grass to the gorgeous orioles in the trees.

    Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

  • They are divided into three main groups: the [[Ornithopods]] ( "bird-foot"), the [[Pachycephalosaurs]] ( "thick-headed lizards") and the [[Ceratops]] ( "horned-face").

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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