| 单词 | heart clover |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheart clover heart clover n. now rare or disused spotted medick, Medicago arabica (formerly M. maculata), which has heart-shaped leaflets marked with a purple spot. ΚΠ 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1115 This heart claver hath very slender and small weake branches full of joynts, and round greenish Trefoile leaves upon long footstalkes at them, broad at the end and dented in, making the fashion of a Hart as it is usually expressed, with red spots in each of them. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 371 We have one variety [of Medicago] very common wild, called Heart-Clover from the form of the leaves, which are also generally spotted. 1896 J. G. Smith Fodder & Forage Plants 30 Medicago maculata. Spotted medick; Bur clover; California clover; Black medick; Heart clover... An Old World pasture plant, which has become widely introduced in the Eastern and Southern States. 1919 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 4 ‘Heart Clover’ or ‘Spotted Bur Clover’ (M. maculata, Sibth., M. arabica, All.) is a useful fodder plant in the United States. < as lemmas |
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