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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See medic.
  • noun See medic.

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

  • noun Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.

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  • noun Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.

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

  • noun any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves

Etymologies

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From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdikē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikē poa, literally "Median grass"); so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.

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