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foalfoot|ˈfəʊlfʊt|
Also foal's-foot. Forms: see foal, foot.
[Named from the shape of the leaves.]
1. = coltsfoot 1.
a1400in Archæologia XXX. 407/1 Folesfoth..& y⊇ smale clote is all on. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xii. 20 This [Tussilago] is called in English Fole foote. 1877in N.W. Linc. Gloss., Foal-foot.
attrib.1881Leicestersh. Gloss. s.v., Home-made foal-foot wine used to be common in Leicestershire.
2. = asarabacca.
1538Turner Libellus, Folfot, Asarum. 1615T. Thomas Lat. Dict., Vulgago..folefoote, or Asarabacca.
3. Applied to other plants resembling the preceding, as sea foalfoot, Convolvulus Soldanella.
1548Turner Names of Herbs (E.D.S.) 20 Brassica marina..may be called in english seafolfote. 1597Gerarde Herbal 690 Soldanella is called..in English..of some Sea Foalfoote. 1713J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 184 White Canada Folesfoot. |