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 sanctuary area was something of a maritime highway cloverleaf.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
And then, as we approached a cloverleaf on-ramp to the highway, the car started to accelerate.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
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
Mr. Aitken’s camera takes in vast stretches of barren terrain and highway cloverleafs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
The highways on Long Island were twisted into cloverleafs!
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010
New super-lighways eliminate dangerous curves and intersections while creating new hazards in the form of bridge piers, complicated cloverleafs and, not least, driver boredom.
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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