a leguminous plant, Trifolium pratense, native to Europe and Asia, frequently planted as a forage crop. It has fragrant red flowers and three-lobed compound leaves
red clover in American English
a kind of clover (Trifolium pratense) with flowers in reddish, ball-shaped heads, grown for fodder and forage
Examples of 'red clover' in a sentence
red clover
This `male" landscape, with its stubble of corn in spring and its `beard of red clover " in summer, offered `nothing to the eye.