cloverleaf
a road arrangement, resembling a four-leaf clover in form, for permitting easy traffic movement between two intersecting high-speed highways. One highway passes over the other, and both are joined by a system of curved feeder roads permitting vehicles to enter and leave the highways.
Origin of cloverleaf
1Other words from cloverleaf
- clo·ver·leafed, adjective
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How to use cloverleaf in a sentence
He had fetched up in a central pathway where the chairs tried to run cloverleafs around four displays.
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British Dictionary definitions for cloverleaf
/ (ˈkləʊvəˌliːf) /
an arrangement of connecting roads, resembling a four-leaf clover in form, that joins two intersecting main roads
(modifier) in the shape or pattern of a leaf of clover
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