sickle medick

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noun

a small Eurasian leguminous plant, Medicago falcata, having trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers, and sickle-shaped podsAlso called: yellow medick

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Words nearby sickle medick

sickle-cell test, sickle cell-thalassemia disease, sickle cell trait, sickle feather, sickle-hocked, sickle medick, sicklemia, sickling, sick list, sickly, sickness

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How to use sickle medick in a sentence

The periodic agony that accompanies sickle cell was joined by the torment of persistent eye infections and repeated surgeries.
Killed by Donald Sterling’s Racism|Michael Daly|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The communist part is no joke, either—his business card features a Soviet-style hammer and sickle in red.
The Big Story Out of Herzliya Might Be About China and Israeli Drones|Eli Lake|March 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
France's Communist party has undergone a revolution and dropped the hammer and sickle from its membership cards.
France's Communists Sell Out|David Frum|February 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But there was a twist—the hammer and sickle through the “c” in “Obama Care.”
The GOP's Ugly Jokers|John Avlon|August 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST

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The GOP's Ugly Jokers|John Avlon|August 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Then Morfed lifted his arm and began to sing softly, swinging the sickle in time to the song, with his eyes on us.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
It was an uncanny song, and I waxed uneasy as it went on, and the flashing sickle waved more quickly before my eyes.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
The song stopped, and the lifted sickle sank with the hand that held it, and the eyes of Morfed left mine and sought the ground.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
Then our captain—wild, saucy Peg Sickle—bounded up with the cry, 'Crown the captain!'
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral|John Dunloe Carteret
Seems to me this dust is like the grain that is shed from a ripe crop before it comes to the sickle.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend|Charles Reade