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CLOVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Trifolium
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("clover" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clover"):
alpine clover; Trifolium alpinum (European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers)
hop clover; lesser yellow trefoil; shamrock; Trifolium dubium (clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock)
crimson clover; Italian clover; Trifolium incarnatum (southern European annual with spiky heads of crimson flower; extensively cultivated in United States for forage)
purple clover; red clover; Trifolium pratense (erect to decumbent short-lived perennial having red-purple to pink flowers; the most commonly grown forage clover)
buffalo clover; Trifolium reflexum; Trifolium stoloniferum (clover of western United States)
dutch clover; shamrock; Trifolium repens; white clover (creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage)
Holonyms ("clover" is a member of...):
genus Trifolium; Trifolium (any leguminous plant having leaves divided into three leaflets)
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