Cinquefoil (disambiguation)
Cinquefoil means "five-leaved", from the French cinq feuilles ("five leaves") and ultimately the Latin quinquefolium. It can refer to:
- Potentilla (typical cinquefoils), a plant genus in the rose family (Rosaceae)
- Several other Rosaceae genera formerly included in Potentilla:
- Comarum
- Dasiphora (woody cinquefoils)
- Drymocallis (Tall Cinquefoil)
- Sibbaldiopsis (Three-toothed Cinquefoil)
- A pattern in heraldry resembling a cinquefoil flower; see Charge (heraldry)#Plants
- The cinquefoil knot, a knot whose outline resembles a cinquefoil flower.
- In architecture, a five-lobed shape found in window tracery.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 655. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.
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