any of various plants having five-petalled flowers or five lobed leaves, such as cinquefoil and Virginia creeper
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five-fin•ger
(fīv′fing′gər),USA pronunciation n.
- Plant Biologyany of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- Plant BiologySee Virginia creeper.
- bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English fīffingre
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