black medick

American  

Or black medic

noun

1. a Eurasian plant, Medicago lupulina, of the pea family, having black pods, cultivated for forage.

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black medick British  

noun

1. Also called: nonesuch.  a small European leguminous plant, Medicago lupulina , with trifoliate leaves, small yellow flowers, and black pods

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Example Sentences

Shamrock, sham′rok, n. the national emblem of Ireland, a leaf with three leaflets, or plant having such leaves, sometimes supposed to be the Wood-sorrel, but the name is more frequently applied to some species of Clover, or to some common plant of some of the nearly allied genera, as the Bird's Foot Trefoil or the Black Medick.

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Flowers numerous in each head Black Medick, Medicago lupulina. 31b.

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