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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).

Noun

colt's foot (plural colt's feet)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The feet or standing extremities of a colt.

Forms of colt's foot

pluralcolt's foots
pluralcolt's feet

Questions about colt's foot

What does colt's foot mean?
Colt's foot means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The feet or standing extremities of a colt.
What is colt's foot the alternative spelling of?
Colt's foot is the alternative spelling of coltsfoot.
What part of speech is colt's foot?
Colt's foot is a noun.
What is the plural of colt's foot?
The plural of colt's foot is colt's foots.

Words near colt's foot in the dictionary

  1. Colstrip
  2. colt
  3. colt evil
  4. colt's evil
  5. colt's feet
  6. colt's foot
  7. colt's foots
  8. colt's teeth
  9. colt's tooth
  10. colt's-feet
  11. colt's-foot

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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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