Any of various Eurasian and North African plants, chiefly yellow-flowered, constituting the genus Medicago (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), which…

Applied in different localities, with qualifying word prefixed, to many plants of the same order, or with similar characters; as bird's-foot clover…

spotted medick, Medicago arabica; = heart clover n.

plural. A species of medick (usually Medicago scutellata) having snail-shaped seed-pods.

(a) black medick, Medicago lupulina; (b) = yellow melilot at main sense.

Chiefly in plural and with distinguishing word. In the names of various herbaceous plants having button-like flowers or seed vessels; (occasionally…

= black medick n.

(see quot. 1866 and sense 4).

a small yellow-flowered medick of grassland, Medicago lupulina, with compressed black pods, sometimes grown for fodder; also called nonsuch.

(a) spotted medick, Medicago arabica (= heart clover n.); (b) melilot (cf. hart-clover, n.).

(a) heart-clover; (b) snail plant.

a medick, Medicago arabica (formerly M. maculata), of south and west Europe, having a low, trailing growth habit and a dark spot towards the centre…

Locally applied to Medicago lupulina and Bryonia dioica; in Australia to species of Dodonæa and Daviesia. bog hop, a local name for Buckbean (Menyan…

a name for Medicago echinus.