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CROW'S FOOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crow's foot mean?
• CROW'S FOOT (noun)
The noun CROW'S FOOT has 2 senses:
1. a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes
Familiarity information: CROW'S FOOT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
crow's feet; crow's foot; laugh line
Hypernyms ("crow's foot" is a kind of...):
crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large tree of Australasia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
booyong; brown oak; crow's foot; Heritiera trifoliolata; red beech; silky elm; stave wood; Terrietia trifoliolata
Hypernyms ("crow's foot" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Context examples
Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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