Dutch clover

American  

noun

1. white clover.

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Etymology

Origin of Dutch clover

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

White Dutch clover grows very, very short, so you can still use it for a functional lawn, and it would put food onto the landscape.

From Slate • May 19, 2023

Here, close at hand, were warm meadows, with calves and lambs cropping the sweet-scented Dutch clover.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various

The night air was scented with the Dutch clover growing down by the shore.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

Perhaps it is the Ulstermen who have set up the foreign "Dutch" clover to replace the true shamrock, the wood-sorrel.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir

T. repens, white or Dutch clover, is a perennial abundant in meadows and good pastures.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various