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CAT'S FOOT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers

Synonyms:

Antennaria dioica; cat's feet; cat's foot; pussytoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cat's foot" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cat's foot"):

plantain-leaved pussytoes; field pussytoes; solitary pussytoes (a variety of pussytoes)

mountain everlasting (a variety of cat's foot)

Holonyms ("cat's foot" is a member of...):

Antennaria; genus Antennaria (small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles)

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