FIVE-FINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does five-finger mean? 

• FIVE-FINGER (noun)
  The noun FIVE-FINGER has 1 sense:

1. any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties

  Familiarity information: FIVE-FINGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIVE-FINGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cinquefoil; five-finger

Hypernyms ("five-finger" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "five-finger"):

goose-tansy; goose grass; Potentilla anserina; silverweed (low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia)

Holonyms ("five-finger" is a member of...):

genus Potentilla; Potentilla (chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil)