A plant, also called goosegrass or cleavers, with hooked leaves that resemble a bird's foot; a climbing weed with distinctive footlike leaves.
Compound word: 'fowl' (bird) plus 'foot,' referring to the distinctive appearance of the plant's clustered leaves resembling the foot of a fowl or bird.
Fowlfoot gets its name because when you look at the leaf arrangement under a microscope, the hooked barbs really do look like tiny bird claws—medieval herbalists were remarkably observant visual thinkers.
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