Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellowish-flowered annual clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) native to the Mediterranean region and Asia and grown for forage in warm areas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Alexandrian or Egyptian clover, Trifolium Alexandrinum, the principal forage-plant and soil-plant of Egypt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An Egyptian clover (
Trifolium alexandrinum ) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called alsoEgyptian clover .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Berseem is grown either over 3 months with 2 cuts as a soil improver (short berseem), usually preceding cotton, or over 6-7 months, either with 4-5 cuts as a fodder crop or grazed by tethered cattle (long berseem).
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The main winter crops are wheat and clover or berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum).
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Apart from the crops mentioned in the Table 8, it is known that large areas of fodder (mainly berseem) are cultivated and irrigated in the winter.
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Amaranth consistently gives lower yields of LC than leaves from legumes like alfalfa, cowpeas, peas, berseem clover or common beans or from wheat.
10: Food science 1996
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These projects are most likely to succeed where there is commercial production of leguminous forage crops such as alfalfa, berseem, or cowpeas that can be used for preparing LC.
10: Food science 1996
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The figures for berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum) cellulose were 34.6 percent for cattle and 52.2 percent for buffalo.
6 Nutrition 1981
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The life of the Nile river-bank was deeply interesting, with a slightly varying background of green fields of berseem, stately palms and rocky desert hills.
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