Dutch clover

noun

1. white clover.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dutch clover¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

White Dutch clover grows very, very short, so you can still use it for a functional lawn, and it would put food onto the landscape.

From Slate

Trifolium repens White or Dutch clover.

From Project Gutenberg

Dutch clover, white clover; Dutch concert, a concert in which singers sing their various songs simultaneously, or each one sings a verse of any song he likes between bursts of some familiar chorus; Dutch drops, a balsam, or popular nostrum, of oil of turpentine, tincture of guaiacum, &c.;

From Project Gutenberg

Dutch Clover, Trifolium repens, commonly called white clover, a valuable pasture plant.

From Project Gutenberg

The hawthorn was covered with its pink-and-white blossoms, May as they call it; acres of the gently-rolling country were crimson with Dutch clover; the laburnum, a small, graceful tree, was full of drooping strings of delicate yellow flowers; the banks were ablaze with scarlet poppies and golden broom.

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