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

= medick, n.

(a) lucerne; (b) snail-plant.

(a) lucerne; (b) sainfoin.

applied by English writers to the plant Lucerne, Medicago sativa: but in French originally to Sainfoin, Onobrychis sativa.

The leguminous plant Medicago sativa, resembling clover, cultivated for fodder; purple medick.

Any of several fodder plants and their seeds: (a) (more fully black nonsuch) black medick, Medicago lupulina; (formerly also) †the seed of this (obs…

A leguminous plant, Medicago sativa, with clover-like leaves and bluish flowers, native to south-west Asia and widely cultivated elsewhere…