alsike

/ ˈælsaɪk, ˈɔːl-, -sɪk /

noun

1. Also called: alsike clover. a clover, Trifolium hybridum, native to Europe and Asia but widely cultivated as a forage crop. It has trifoliate leaves and pink or whitish flowers

Word History and Origins

Origin of alsike¹

C19: named after Alsike, Sweden

Example Sentences

In some sections, such legumes as red, alsike, crimson and white clovers have been grown for many years and the bacteria for these plants are well distributed.

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T. hybridum, Alsike or Swedish clover, is a perennial which was introduced early in the 19th century and has now become naturalized in Britain.

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“Alsike Clover, from the farm of B. B. Hamm.”

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Alsike clover will grow on a soil too wet or containing too little lime for either of the former.

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Beyond the last strip of rich color, there spread, shining delicately blue, a great field of flax; and then the dusky green of alfalfa and alsike for the Hereford cattle, standing knee-deep in a flashing lake.

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