cloverleaf
Americannoun
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an arrangement of connecting roads, resembling a four-leaf clover in form, that joins two intersecting main roads
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(modifier) in the shape or pattern of a leaf of clover
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The viruses shared nearly identical RNA cloverleaf structures and binding behavior.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
Creatively designed roadways captured the public’s imagination, such as the first cloverleaf interchange, erected in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, in 1928, which allowed drivers to move between two highways without crossings or left turns.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
The more extensive plans now reportedly include making way for two new highways, two large roundabouts, a giant cloverleaf and the widening of other roads.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Next, Mr. Irwin wanted help producing the acrylic disks for which he would become known: evanescent convex shapes, mounted so they seemed to hover and lit from four sides to create a cloverleaf pattern.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
They each set out in a different direction, making a cloverleaf, meeting back at the apartment.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
We’re going fast around all the cloverleafs and overpasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Routes 95, 29, 32 and 1 and local roads and cloverleafs are filled with trash, including rubber from tires, mattresses, car parts, bags of trash and debris.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
The highways on Long Island were twisted into cloverleafs!
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010
A born optimist, Ms. Tronchetti Provera likes to nudge her happy destiny along by piling jeweled cloverleafs and lucky amulets on her arms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2010
Visitors marvel at American highways, cloverleafs and bridges, admire U.S. drivers for "staying in lane," and deplore ubiquitous billboards.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furth are called 'Kleeblatter', which means cloverleaves, but luck has not been on their side in just their second ever season in the Bundesliga.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2021
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