saintfoin

[ seynt-foin ]

noun

1. sainfoin.

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

The road passes, almost the whole way, through a majestic avenue of elm trees: Instead of the continual recurrence of corn fields and fallows, the eye is here occasionally relieved by the intervention of fields of lucerne and saintfoin, orchards and vineyards; the country is rich, well clothed with wood, and varied with rising grounds, and studded with chateaux; there are more carriages on the roads and bustle in the inns, and your approach to the capital is very obvious.

From Project Gutenberg

Is either clay, or gravel, or sand; the clays produce excellent wheat and beans; the gravel and sand, rye, barley, peas, and oats; and of late years the light lands have been improved, and rendered as valuable as the clays, by sowing them with turnips, clover, saintfoin, &c. but more particularly in wet years; a wet season, however, by no means agrees with the clay. 

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The culture is corn, clover, saintfoin, olives, vines, mulberries, willow, and some almonds.

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

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