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单词 red clover
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red clover


noun

a clover, Trifolium pratense, having red flowers, grown for forage: the state flower of Vermont.

Origin of red clover

before 900; Old English (not recorded in ME)

Words nearby red clover

red cent, Red Chamber, Red China, red clay, Redcloud Peak, red clover, red cluster pepper, redcoat, red cod, red coral, red corpuscle
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Example sentences from the Web for red clover

  • Red-clover hay is too dusty for horses, and too wasteful for cattle.

    Soil Culture|J. H. Walden
  • Red-clover makes fair hay, though inferior to timothy or red-top.

    Soil Culture|J. H. Walden
  • My little essay in red-clover, the last year, has had the most encouraging success.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson
  • Buffalo-clover resembles white-clover, but does not run on the 293 ground; the leaf as large as red-clover.

    Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume X|Various

British Dictionary definitions for red clover

red clover

noun

a leguminous plant, Trifolium pratense, native to Europe and Asia, frequently planted as a forage crop. It has fragrant red flowers and three-lobed compound leaves
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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