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potentilla

/ ˌəʊəˈɪə /

noun

  1. any rosaceous plant or shrub of the N temperate genus Potentilla, having five-petalled flowers See also cinquefoil silverweed tormentil
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of potentilla1

C16: New Latin, from Medieval Latin: garden valerian, from Latin dzŧԲ powerful, potent 1
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For Potentilla, or cinquefoil, it’s a more industrial approach.

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Nov. 14, 2003: “What a treat to see late potentilla, pansies and even petunias in bloom. ... These have not been bad replacements for snow at the end of October.”

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Physiological, biochemical and proteomics analysis reveals the adaptation strategies of the alpine plant Potentilla saundersiana at altitude gradient of the Northwestern Tibetan Plateau.

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Rock cropped up there, amid a waste of bents and potentilla and sea-thrift and thyme, and a rill slipped over moss and, a little further on, disappeared into the sand, to emerge again down by the shore.

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Flowers nearly as in Potentilla.

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