Water crowfoot \Wa"ter crow"foot`\ (Bot.) An aquatic kind of buttercup ({Ranunculus aquatilis}), used as food for cattle in parts of England. {Great water crowfoot}, an American water plant ({Ranunculus multifidus}), having deep yellow flowers.
water crowfoot n : plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America [syn: {water buttercup}, {Ranunculus aquatilis}]