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potentilla
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun potentilla has 1 sense
- potentilla(n = noun.plant) genus potentilla - chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil; Array is a kind of rosid dicot genus
is a member of family rosaceae, rosaceae, rose family
OXFORD DICTIONARY
potentilla, n. any plant or shrub of the genus Potentilla; a cinquefoil.
Etymology
med.L, dimin. of L potens POTENT(1)
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