clovernoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkləʊ.vər/us/ˈkloʊ.vɚ/a small plant with three round leaves on each stem, often fed to cows
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Common plants
- African violet
- aloe
- aloe vera
- anise
- aspidistra
- crabgrass
- deadly nightshade
- fenugreek
- fern
- four-leaf clover
- pot plant
- prickly pear
- Queen Anne's lace
- rubber plant
- runner bean
- tuft
- turves
- Venus flytrap
- wheat
- yucca
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Crop plants & economic plants
Examples from literature
- A firefly or so flickered brightly above the fields of clover.
- And he lies down on his back in a field of clover, and stares up at the sky.
- Bees hummed in the clover, and she began to sing with them, and her low, humming song melted into the roar of the storm.
- I must get into the shade, she said, climbed the fence, and, on the fragrant masses of red clover, threw herself down in the shade of the thorn tree.
- When clover is grown in short rotations, its power to destroy weeds is increased.
Idiom(s)
live/be in clover