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white clover
noun
- a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
white clover
noun
- a Eurasian clover plant, Trifolium repens, with rounded white flower heads: cultivated as a forage plant
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white clover1
before 1100; Middle English; Old English
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Example Sentences
The hills ahead were clothed in a beautiful green, sprinkled thickly with the white clover so dear to the bovine tongue.
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A few feet away a bunch of white clover blossomed: a honey bee was searching it.
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Likewise there are but a few parcels whereon white clover does not grow spontaneously and in the greatest abundance.
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White clover is unsuitable for hay; it shrinks so much in drying, that it is very unproductive.
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The grove would afford a good place for fowls, while the blossoms would be nearly equal to white clover for honey.
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