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saintfoin

American  
[seynt-foin] / ˈseɪnt fɔɪn /

noun

  1. sainfoin.


Example Sentences

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

From George Washington: Farmer by Haworth, Paul Leland

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

During the early part of summer it frequents corn-fields, saintfoin, and lucern.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

But at Beziers the country becomes hilly, and is in olives, corn, saintfoin, pasture, some vines, and mulberries.

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