Cinquefoil (disambiguation)

Cinquefoil means "five-leaved", from the French cinq feuilles ("five leaves") and ultimately the Latin quinquefolium. It can refer to:

Potentilla (typical cinquefoils), a plant genus in the rose family (Rosaceae)
Several other Rosaceae genera formerly included in Potentilla:
- Comarum
- Dasiphora (woody cinquefoils)
- Drymocallis (Tall Cinquefoil)
- Sibbaldiopsis (Three-toothed Cinquefoil)
A pattern in heraldry resembling a cinquefoil flower; see Charge (heraldry)#Plants
The cinquefoil knot, a knot whose outline resembles a cinquefoil flower.
In architecture, a five-lobed shape found in window tracery.^[1]

References

↑ Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 655. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.

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