quinquefolium

quinquefolium [CL], quintifolium , (bot.) creeping cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans), ? crowfoot or buttercup (Ranunculus); b (as ornamental design that resembles cinquefoil); c (her.). ~ium, hræfnesfoot GlC Q 49; herba ~ium þæt is fiflafe Leechdoms I 6; ibi crescit ‥ millefolium ‥ ~ium Ælf. Bata 6 p. 99; 10‥ quinquevolium, fifleafe WW; 12‥ ~ium, i. quintfoil, , i. fifleb WW; ~ium, pentafilon idem SB 36; ~ium, pentaphilon idem, G. quintefoil, A. fivelevedgras Alph. 152.  b 1245 cum paruris ‥ breudatis ad modum v foliorum Invent. S. Paul. 490.  c portat de argento quintifolium de nigro, G. il port d’argent ore cinquefoilie de sabull Bad. Aur. 184.