† esparcetn.
Obsolete.
(See quot.)
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder
bullimong1313
podder1468
tare1482
greens1607
lucerne1652
esperate1659
esparcet1669
tare-thistle1753
buckwheat1776
mangel-wurzel1787
mangold1848
sacate1848
sacaton1865
mangel-wurzel potato1875
mutter1875
ramon1885
cattle-bush1889
manna1897
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > sainfoin
cock's head1553
red fitchling1597
French grass1652
sainfoin1652
esperate1659
holy haya1661
esparcet1669
red fitch1671
snail clover-grass1717
holy grass1778
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 31 Esparcet is a kind of St. Foyn, and by some judged to be the same. [So 1708 Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 2) I. 36.]
1736–1800 in Bailey ; and in mod. Dicts.
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