"potentilla" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: potentillas [plural]
Etymology: From the genus name. Head templates: {{en-noun}} potentilla (plural potentillas)
  1. Any of many shrubs and herbs of the genus Potentilla; the cinquefoils. Categories (lifeform): Rose family plants Translations (any of many shrubs and herbs of the genus Potentilla): бял очеболец (bjal očebolec) [masculine] (Bulgarian), potentil·la [feminine] (Catalan), 委陵菜 (wěilíngcài) (Chinese Mandarin), hanhikki (Finnish), potentille (French), Fingerkraut [neuter] (German), pimpó (Hungarian), 양지꽃 (yangjikkot) (Korean), pięciornik [masculine] (Polish), potentilha [feminine] (Portuguese), лапча́тка (lapčátka) [feminine] (Russian), petòprsta [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), petòprst [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pètolist [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)

Inflected forms

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