a. [f. FIVE + LEAF + -ED2.] Having five leaves.

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1658.  Sir T. Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, iii. 155. The regular inequality of bignesse in the five-leaved flowers of Henbane.

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1698.  J. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XX. 316. Five leaved Mock-Mustard.

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1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 4068/4. Two five Leav’d Lacker’d Screens.

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  b.  Five-leaved grass = FIVE-LEAF.

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1526.  Grete Herbal, cccxlvii. Peenthafilon is an herbe called fyue leued.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, I. lvi. 83. Cinquefoyle is called … of some Fyueleaued Grasse.

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1614.  Markham, Cheap Husb., I. (1668). Table Words, Quinque-folio … is that Herb which is called Five-leaved Grass.

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1884.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Five-leaved grass, or Potentilla reptans.

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