alfalfa
a plant, Medicago sativa, of the legume family, usually having bluish-purple flowers, originating in western Asia and widely cultivated as a forage crop.
Origin of alfalfa
1- Also called lucerne, purple medic.
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How to use alfalfa in a sentence
When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth.
A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world | Sarah Kaplan | October 12, 2021 | Washington PostA majority of the water used by farms — and thus much of the river — goes to growing nonessential crops like alfalfa and other grasses that feed cattle for meat production.
40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast. | by Abrahm Lustgarten | August 27, 2021 | ProPublicaIn his younger days, Ed cut alfalfa with a team of horses, and lived the progression from horse to tractor.
The 475-square-foot shop is extending its hours for summer, and debuting new picnic-ready sandwiches such as the Top Knot, a sub topped with turkey, cheddar, green apple slices, alfalfa sprouts and a slather of rosé-infused mayo.
As it’s there, microbes are breaking down the body and breaking down the wood chips, alfalfa, and straw to create this beautiful soil.
The startup turning human bodies into compost | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
The alfalfa Club dinner crowd in tiaras was the order of the night.
A small flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, known as alfalfa.
They will concentrate instead on farming their 1,900 acres of alfalfa, 1,600 acres of corn, and 1,400 acres of soybeans.
He was presented with a special alfalfa medallion for a lifetime of civility, good cheer, and good fellowship.
They grew up as crop and dairy farmers in Iowa, tending corn, soy, alfalfa, hay, oats and clover.
I'll try alfalfa in that field next and then I'll rub Aladdin's lamp.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer Myersalfalfa, al-fal′fa, n. a Spanish name for a variety of lucerne—used also in some parts of the United States.
After three o'clock I sat here in a cool room by an open window watching Papa mow alfalfa and the men stack grain.
The American Country Girl | Martha Foote CrowHere he owns two hundred acres of alfalfa land and he is also engaged quite extensively in dairying and in fruit raising.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2) | William Denison LymanFour ploughs were kept steadily at work, and the ground was sown with alfalfa or lucern, as fast as it was got into condition.
Out on the Pampas | G. A. Henty
British Dictionary definitions for alfalfa
/ (ælˈfælfə) /
a leguminous plant, Medicago sativa, of Europe and Asia, having compound leaves with three leaflets and clusters of small purplish flowers. It is widely cultivated for forage and as a nitrogen fixer and used as a commercial source of chlorophyll: Also called: lucerne
Origin of alfalfa
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