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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 eyesplay

2. large tree of Australasiaplay

  Familiarity information: CROW'S FOOT used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CROW'S FOOT (noun)


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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