CLOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clover mean? 

• CLOVER (noun)
  The noun CLOVER has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the genus Trifolium

  Familiarity information: CLOVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Trifolium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

clover; trefoil

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)

 Context examples 

The stylized shape, of clover, having three or four leaves with or without the stem.

(Clover, NCI Thesaurus)

The very cattle looked more tranquil than ours, as they stood knee-deep in clover, and the hens had a contented cluck, as if they never got nervous like Yankee biddies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The sun was lying low in the west and shooting its level rays across the long sweep of rich green country, glinting on the white-fleeced sheep and throwing long shadows from the red kine who waded knee-deep in the juicy clover.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cold repast was over, and the party were to go out once more to see what had not yet been seen, the old Abbey fish-ponds; perhaps get as far as the clover, which was to be begun cutting on the morrow, or, at any rate, have the pleasure of being hot, and growing cool again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)