a. [f. FIVE + FINGER + -ED2.] Having five divisions more or less resembling the fingers of the hand. Five-fingered grass = FIVE-FINGER 1 a. Five-fingered root (see quot. 1746).
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 110 b. Cinkfoly or fyuefyngred grasse.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. lvi. 83. Cinquefoyle is called … in English … of some … Fiuefingred-grasse.
1746. Howell, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 228. I found it to be the Oenanthe aquatica cicutæ facie of Lobel which … is called by the inhabitants [of Pembrokeshire] five-finger’d Root.
