bird's foot

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Matching Terms:		bird's foot clover, bird's foot trefoil, bird's-foot fern, bird's-foot violet
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] the foot of a bird

	See Also:	animal foot, bird, claw, foot, heterodactyl foot, lobate foot, talon, webbed foot, zygodactyl foot

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Bird's"-foot`\, n. (Bot.) A papilionaceous plant, the {Ornithopus}, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. {Bird's-foot trefoil}. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants ({Lotus}) with clawlike pods. {L. corniculatas}, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain. (b) the related plant, {Trigonella ornithopodioides}, is also European.