catsfoot

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.
    — ...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...
  2. Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).
    — It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.
  3. Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).
    — ...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.

词源

From cat's + foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.
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