goat's foot

1. 1.

   short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers

   SynonymsgoatsfootOxalis caprina

   Broaderoxalis

Questions about goat's foot

What does goat's foot mean?

goat's foot means "short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers".

What is another word for goat's foot?

Close synonyms include goatsfoot, Oxalis caprina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is goat's foot a common word?

goat's foot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.