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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cinquefoil /ˈsɪŋkfɔɪl/

▶noun

1 a herbaceous plant of the rose family, with compound leaves of five leaflets and five-petalled yellow flowers. [Genus Potentilla.]

2 Art an ornamental design of five lobes arranged in a circle.

– origin ME: from L. quinquefolium, from quinque ‘five’ + folium ‘leaf’.

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