Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various herbs of the genus Trifolium in the pea family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense heads of small flowers and including species grown for forage, for erosion control, and as a source of nectar for honeybees.
- noun Any of several other plants in the pea family, such as bush clover and sweet clover.
- noun Any of several nonleguminous plants, such as water clover.
- idiom (in clover) Living a carefree life of ease, comfort, or prosperity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Texas, Marsilea macropoda, a plant of some forage value in shady bottoms. See
Marsilea . - noun Same as
annual red clover . - noun In California: Trifolium fucatum, a true clover, probably with some allied species or varieties. These are succulent plants with light-colored foliage.
- noun T. obtusiflorum, a species having an acid taste and clammy with an acid exudation. The Indians regard it as one of the best for eating, the exudation being generally washed off. Also called
salt clover and, as growing near springs, spring-clover. - noun Same as
bear- clover . - noun A name of various common species of plants of the genus Trifolium, natural order Leguminosæ.
- noun One of several plants of other genera belonging to the same order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover,
Trifolium pratense , the white,Trifolium repens , and the hare's foot,Trifolium arvense . - noun (Zoöl.) a small weevil (
Apion apricans ), that destroys the seeds of clover. - noun (Zoöl.) the larva of a small moth (
Asopia costalis ), often very destructive to clover hay. - noun See
Meliot .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A plant of the
genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four)leaflets and with white or redflowers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a plant of the genus Trifolium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I am not familiar with Virginia soils but I can tell you in the midwest clover is a Deer dream plot.
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I am not familiar with Virginia soils but I can tell you in the midwest clover is a Deer dream plot.
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With no mowing the clover is feeding our neighbour's bees all day long.
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With no mowing the clover is feeding our neighbour's bees all day long.
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With no mowing the clover is feeding our neighbour's bees all day long.
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I remember learning in science that clover have the ability to fix nitrogen from the air (or perhaps that clover is in a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria) and that on the clover roots are little nodules that do the fixing.
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I remember learning in science that clover have the ability to fix nitrogen from the air (or perhaps that clover is in a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria) and that on the clover roots are little nodules that do the fixing.
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You're in clover and your recently-promoted editor loves you, along with most of the world (or at least America).
July 22nd, 2006 danhoyt 2006
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In early August it was "waist-deep in clover — beautiful," he says.
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The four-leaf clover is a symbol of luck, according to Irish folklore.
Four-leaf clover M-mv 2005
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February 27, 2008