Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A highway interchange at which two highways, one crossing over the other, have a series of entrance and exit ramps resembling the outline of a four-leaf clover and enabling vehicles to proceed in either direction on either highway.
  • adjective Resembling or shaped like a leaf of the clover plant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The leaf of clover; a trefoil.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
  • noun The leaf of a clover plant
  • noun US (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange.
  • verb intransitive To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an interchange that does not require left-hand turns

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Examples

  • No, I’m suggesting just the opposite: that we can’t keep building new roads and assuming that we’ve gotten the expensive stuff done once that new cloverleaf is finished.

    Waldo Jaquith - The cost of infrastructure is infinite. 2008

  • Two Bradley tanks stand guard at a "cloverleaf" intersection that is a notorious ambush point.

    'Lord... Just Help Us Kill 'Em' 2007

  • This exciting partnership also has its roots in both parties respect for the environment - the "cloverleaf" course was designed to minimize impact on the environment while Thule has gone so far as adding solar panels to the roof of its Seymour, Connecticut manufacturing and office facility that will offset 26\% of the total energy used.

    Bike Magazine - Most Recent 2009

  • The Intermontane Challenge and its unique "cloverleaf" course design filled with epic B.C.

    Bike Magazine - Most Recent 2009

  • The overall race route will be a "cloverleaf" design, with each stage starting and ending in Breckenridge, in a series of interconnected loops with a single campground for riders at the epicenter.

    Bike Magazine - Most Recent 2009

  • This exciting partnership also has its roots in both parties respect for the environment - the "cloverleaf" course was designed to minimize impact on the environment while Thule has gone so far as adding solar panels to the roof of its Seymour, Connecticut manufacturing and office facility that will offset 26\% of the total energy used.

    Bike Magazine - Most Recent 2009

  • Chef Larry is highly recognized for his culinary accomplishments, especially when he was selected to be a member of the 1992, 1996 and 1992 USA Culinary Teams, winning three gold medals and a special "cloverleaf" award at the world's most prestigious cooking competition, the "Culinary Olympics."

    Home 2009

  • The Intermontane Challenge and its unique "cloverleaf" course design filled with epic B.C.

    Bike Magazine - Most Recent 2009

  • In a departure from point-to-point races like BC and TransRockies, the Breck Epic will use a "cloverleaf" model, with each day's stage starting and finishing in Breckenridge.

    Boulder Report 2008

  • Once, on a one lane cloverleaf ramp, going from one freeway to the other (the two ran perpendicular to each other, if you don't know what I mean by "cloverleaf"), a car passed me.

    Adventus 2008

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