red clover

noun

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

red clover

noun

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of red clover¹

before 900; Old English (not recorded in ME)

Example Sentences

There is an abundance of red clover along this drive in the low grounds.

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The bottoms are of rich friable earth, and afford grass of various kinds, among others that of red clover.

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Out he ran, and in a moment he came back, bearing defiantly a fine red-clover blossom.

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Silvery winged fritillaries sailed hither and thither among the red clover blossoms.

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Red-clover makes fair hay, though inferior to timothy or red-top.

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