Water crowfoot \Wa"ter crow"foot`\ (Bot.)
An aquatic kind of buttercup ({Ranunculus aquatilis}), used
as food for cattle in parts of England.
{Great water crowfoot}, an American water plant ({Ranunculus
multifidus}), having deep yellow flowers.
water crowfoot
n : plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and
floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North
America [syn: {water buttercup}, {Ranunculus aquatilis}]