Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Alfalfa.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leguminous plant, Medicago sativa, a highly valuable pasture- and forage-plant, cultivated from ancient times, now widely spread in temperate climates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
lucern , the plant.
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- noun UK
Alfalfa .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
Etymologies
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Examples
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The grass called lucerne seems the best adapted to them, and you will find it grown on all ostrich farms for the special purpose of feeding the birds.
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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Of the legumes, alfalfa, also called lucerne, is the most popular crop; it's estimated that more than half of the hay harvested in the United States is alfalfa, or an alfalfa/grass mix.
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Of the legumes, alfalfa, also called lucerne, is the most popular crop; it's estimated that more than half of the hay harvested in the United States is alfalfa, or an alfalfa/grass mix.
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I have increafed the flock proportionally to the improvement of the lucerne, which is not fo good the firft and fecond year as afterwards.
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The great valleys of California do not produce much butter, and probably never will, though I am told that cows fed on alfalfa, which is a kind of lucerne, yield abundant and rich milk, and, when small and careful farming comes into fashion in this State, there is no reason why stall-fed cows should not yield butter, even in the San Joaquin or Sacramento valleys.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865
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Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.
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Digging in ten bags of mushroom compost, organic chicken poo fertilzer, laying down the lucerne.
Archive 2008-11-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008
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In the Registers kept at Cabul the rule is to set down in kind whatever part of the revenue is derived from the various sorts of corn, rice, cotton, pulse and seeds yielding oil which are usually cultivated and to enter in money the dues from all other produce as fruit, melon beds, straw, clover, lucerne, sheep, etc.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Digging in ten bags of mushroom compost, organic chicken poo fertilzer, laying down the lucerne.
614 - swings and round about Another Outspoken Female 2008
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Almonds, clovers and lucerne aren't so good for them; too many pesticides are being used.
Will Australia be the country that PROVES CCD in bees is due to pesticides and GM crops? 2009
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