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Definition of "lady's-finger" []

  • Plural The kidney-vetch, Anthyllis Vulneraria. The name has also been given to many other plants. (noun)
  • One of the hairy appendages of the legs of lobsters, attached to the base of the leg. They are the gills or branchiæ. See exopodite. (noun)
  • A kind of confectioners' cake, or of sponge-cake, so named from the long and slender form. (noun)
  • A finger-shaped variety of the potato formerly common, small, white, and of delicate flavor. (noun)
  • A variety of apple. Also ladyfinger. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "lady's-finger" in a sentence
  • "All was disappointing; for the meadows were beautiful at this season with their summer snow of daisies -- not dead-white snow either, for it was broken by patches of yellow buttercups, crow's-foot, lady's-finger, and vetch, and by the crimson clover flowers and the rusty red of sorrel, and the black pert heads of the nib-wort plaintain, whose black upon the white of ox-eye daisies has the rich tone of ermine."
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