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coltsfoot

coltsfoot noun: an herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot.

coltsfoot: an herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow...
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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).

coltsfoot meaning in Tamil and Arabic

coltsfoot in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

coltsfoot in Arabic

Tussilago farfara
حَشِيشَة السُّعَال ḥašīšat as-suʕāl, دَوْسَة الْحِمَار dawsat al-ḥimār, طَارِد السُّعَال ṭārid as-suʕāl, فَرْفَرة farfara

Forms of coltsfoot

pluralcoltsfoots
pluralcoltsfeet

Origin of coltsfoot

From Middle English coltisfote, coltys fot, equivalent to colt + -s- + foot.

Words formed from coltsfoot

Questions about coltsfoot

What does coltsfoot mean?
Coltsfoot means an herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot.
What is coltsfoot in Tamil?
Coltsfoot in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Coltsfoot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is coltsfoot?
Coltsfoot is a noun.
What is the plural of coltsfoot?
The plural of coltsfoot is coltsfoots.

Words near coltsfoot in the dictionary

  1. Coltrains
  2. Coltrane
  3. Coltranes
  4. colts
  5. coltsfeet
  6. coltsfoot
  7. coltsfoots
  8. coltskin
  9. coltskins
  10. coltstail
  11. colubrariid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coltsfoot (page history and authors); coltsfoot (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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