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colt's-foot

colt's-foot is the alternative spelling of coltsfoot.

Meaning of coltsfoot

Noun

coltsfoot (countable and uncountable, plural coltsfoots or coltsfeet)

  1. An herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot.
    • The russet cliffs are wetted by a beck, and where the water runs, yellow coltsfoot grows.2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 179
  2. Various flowering plants in the genus Petasites native to Europe or Asia.
  3. Homogyne alpina (alpine coltsfoot or purple colt's-foot).

Forms of colt's-foot

pluralcolt's-foots
pluralcolt's-feet

Questions about colt's-foot

What is colt's-foot the alternative spelling of?
Colt's-foot is the alternative spelling of coltsfoot.

Words near colt's-foot in the dictionary

  1. colt's foot
  2. colt's foots
  3. colt's teeth
  4. colt's tooth
  5. colt's-feet
  6. colt's-foot
  7. colt's-foots
  8. coltan
  9. coltans
  10. Coltauco
  11. colted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colt's-foot (page history and authors); coltsfoot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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