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CAT'S FEET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cat's feet mean?
• CAT'S FEET (noun)
The noun CAT'S FEET has 1 sense:
1. low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers
Familiarity information: CAT'S FEET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Antennaria dioica; cat's feet; cat's foot; pussytoes
Hypernyms ("cat's feet" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cat's feet"):
plantain-leaved pussytoes; field pussytoes; solitary pussytoes (a variety of pussytoes)
mountain everlasting (a variety of cat's foot)
Holonyms ("cat's feet" is a member of...):
Antennaria; genus Antennaria (small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles)
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