melilot

American  

[mel-uh-lot] / ˈmɛl əˌlɒt /

noun

1. a cloverlike plant of the genus Melilotus, of the legume family, grown as a forage plant.

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melilot British  

/ ˈmɛlɪˌlɒt /

noun

1. Also called: sweet clover. any leguminous plant of the Old World genus Melilotus, having narrow clusters of small white or yellow fragrant flowers

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Etymology

Origin of melilot

before 1150; Middle English mellilot < Latin melilōtos < Greek melílōtos a clover, equivalent to méli honey + lōtós lotus; replacing late Old English milotis < Latin, as above

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Example Sentences

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melilot

Among the flowers chiefly used for garlands and chaplets in ceremonial rites we find the rose, violet, anemone, thyme, melilot, hyacinth, crocus, yellow lily, and yellow flowers generally.

From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer

It's a hay cheese, flavored heavily with melilot, a kind of clover that's also grown for hay.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown

In the process of making this cheese, melilot, a clover-like herb, is added, and this gives the cheese a green color and a peculiar flavor.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

I think my heart broke; but I have forgot All but the smell of the white melilot.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Fenugreek, fen′ū-grēk, n. a genus of leguminous plants, allied to clover and melilot.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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