saintfoin

American  

[seynt-foin] / ˈseɪnt fɔɪn /

noun

1. sainfoin.

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Example Sentences

The species of saintfoin cultivated here by the name of sparsette, is the hedysarum onobrychis.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Rich plains in corn, saintfoin, and pasture; hills at a little distance to the right in olives; the soil both of hill and plain is red going from Agde to Beziers.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

We have fallow, wheat, oats, rye, turnips, saintfoin, lucerne, barley, peas, beans, clover, rye-grass, and even buck-wheat, tares and lentils rotated in various ways, but the potato is never mentioned.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John

I had the honor of sending you, the last year, some seeds of the sulla of Malta, or Spanish saintfoin.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

There were also six saintfoin plants, which I found the General valued highly.

From George Washington: Farmer by Haworth, Paul Leland