crowtoe

plural crowtoes

1. A perennial herbaceous plant, Lotus corniculatus, native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa.

   With yelowish marygold , she the tender Crowtoe bedecketh

   1812, Samuel Egerton Brydges, Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, The British Bibliographer, volume 2

   Synonyms: bird's-foot trefoil, birdfoot deervetch

2. obsoleteAn unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.

   The tufted Crow-toe.

   1637, John Milton, Lycidas