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CAT'S FEET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cat's feet mean? 

CAT'S FEET (noun)
  The noun CAT'S FEET has 1 sense:

1. low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowersplay

  Familiarity information: CAT'S FEET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAT'S FEET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("cat's feet" 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 feet"):

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

mountain everlasting (a variety of cat's foot)

Holonyms ("cat's feet" 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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