bird's-foot

noun

a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus , with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
any of various other plants whose flowers, leaves, or pods resemble a bird's foot or claw

He tendered the advance instalment of the fee and a hand, all claws like a birds foot, snatched it away from him.

This was a plant of the birds-foot clover, called in old times Our Ladys Finger.

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