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SWEET CLOVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement
Synonyms:
melilot; melilotus; sweet clover
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sweet clover" is a kind of...):
ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweet clover"):
Melilotus alba; white melilot; white sweet clover (biennial plant; valuable honey plant)
Melilotus officinalis; yellow sweet clover (biennial yellow-flowered Eurasian plant having aromatic leaves used as carminative or flavoring agent; widely cultivated especially as green manure or cover crop)
Holonyms ("sweet clover" is a member of...):
genus Melilotus (Old World herbs: the sweet clovers)
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